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The MacSparran Diary 



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LETTER BOOK 

AND 

abstract of iBut ^ertjtces 

Written during the Years 1743— 175 1 

By the 

REV^^. JAMES M^^SPARRAN 

Do(5lor in Divinity, and sometime Rector of 
Saint PauPs Church, Narragansett, Rhode Island 

Edited^ with Sketch of the Author & numerous Notes ^ 
by the Reverend DANIEL GOODWIN, Ph. D. 

lately ReBor of the Same Parish 



Printed & Published by D. B. Updike, 'The Merry- 
mount Press^ Chestnut Street, Boston, A. D. 1899 



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TO THE MEMORY OF 

miMns SapDtfte, esq" 

BORN AT COCUMSCUSSUC, W1CK.F0RD, 1784 
DIED at: KINGSTON, RHODE ISLAND, 1867 

T^he Pioneer in Narragansett Ecclesiastical Anti- 
quarian Research^ who^ by his History of the Nar- 
ragansett Church, revived and established the Fame 
of the Author of the Diary herewith presented to 
the Public, this Volume is gratefully dedicated by 

The Editor 



A Table of Contents 

1 

I. To the Reader vii 
II. A Biographical Sketch of the Author of 

the Diary xv 

III. The Diary i 

IV. Notes by the Editor 69 
V. Index of Persons 175 

VI. Index of Places 193 

The Portrait of Dr. MacSparran is taken from a photograph of 
the original painting by Smibert, now in the possession of Bowdoin 
College, Brunswick, Maine, and is here reproduced by permission. 
The Portrait of Mrs. MacSparran from the original — also by 
Smibert — in the gallery of the Museum of Fine Arts of the city 
of Boston is reproduced by kind permission of the Trustees. 




To the Reader 

)HE discovery of the time-stained Manu- 
script, herewith presented with annota- 
tions, after it had lain in concealment 
for a century or more, was on this wise. 
When the late Rev. Alexis Caswell, D. D., hav- 
ing been ele5led President of Brown University in 
1868, was removing from his private residence on 
Angel I Street, Providence, into the '■''President's 
House,'' it became necessary, in preparing the for- 
mer for another tenant, to clear the attic of the ac- 
cumulation of years. After much of it had been already 
destroyed, certain dusty and discoloured papers came 
to light, which appeared, to the member of the family 
having the work in charge, as of possible antiquarian 
value. T'hese having accordingly been reserved for 
the DoSlors own inspediion, he presently identified 
them as sermons and private journals of the distin- 
guished Dr. fames MacSparran, reSlor of the 
Narragansett Church from 1721 to 1757, ^ sketch 
of whose life will be found below. 
The presence of these venerable documents in that 
unsuspeSied receptacle is believed to be thus ex- 
plained. 

The ancient house, at forty Angel I Street, before it was 
purchased by Dr. Caswell, belonged to his mother-in- 
law, Mrs. Edward Thompson, whose husband was 

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a grandson of the much respeSled Rev. Ehenezer 
Thompson, missionary of the Society for the Propa- 
gation of the Gospel, in Scituate, Massachusetts, from 
iy^2 ^^ ^^^^ death in 1775, and himself mentioned in 
the Diary of Dr. MacSparran. It is known that upon 
the breaking up of Mr. Thompson s Parsonage on 
" Church Hill,'' after the death of the seven daughters 
who survived hi?n, his papers were brought to Provi- 
dence and stowed in the Angell Street house. 
It cannot be reasonably doubted, although not a mat- 
ter of positive evidence, that the MacSparran manu- 
scripts, finally found among these papers of Mr. 
Thompson, had, after the demise of the former with- 
out surviving relatives in New England, been en- 
trusted to the care of his old friend at Scituate. 
In Dr. MacSparran s will, executed before his last 
visit to England in 1754, he bequeathed the docu- 
ments and manuscripts, he had collcBed, to his wife 
to be sold by her. But, she not living to return to 
America, his papers, upon his death shortly after 
reaching home, necessarily passed into the hands of 
those less closely connected with hmi. 
Whether or not the manuscript of the DoBors His- 
tory of the Narragansett Country, known to have 
been previously in existence, was also among the pa- 
pers placed in the custody of Mr. Thompson and was 
subsequently tnislaid or destroyed, can ?iow be only 
a matter of c on] c dure. At the period of the publica- 
tion of the well-known History of the Narragansett 
Church, by Wilkins Updike, Esqr., in i 847, which 
served to arouse such a widespread interest in the 

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personality of Dr. MacSparran, the existence of 
tikis Diary does not appear to have been even sus- 
pedied^ and it did not transpire for more than a score 
of years. The avidity with which Mr. Updike would 
have seized upon the precious relic, could it have 
come into his hands, and the eagerness with which 
he would have woven its contents into his story can 
he readily and pleasantly imagined. 
After the manuscript had remained for some years 
in the hands of the writer, then reSlor of S. Paul's, 
to whom it had been transferred by Dr. Caswell, it 
was deposited in the Registry of the Diocese of 
Rhode Island and became the property of the Con- 
vention by the express authorization of which it is 
now published. As is natural in a record of life in 
a remote country parsonage, much of the Diary is of 
a common-place and even trivial charaSier. But yet 
just these trifing and homely details, — the gather- 
ing of crops, the building offences and stone-walls, 
the ""^ letting the cows into the upper pasture ^^ the 
procession of rustic visitors at the redlory, the sight 
of ^^ a bear, last night in Mrs. Cole's farm," the 
escapade of the slave-boy, Hannibal, and the " In- 
fair,''' after a wedding, — help to fill out a most 
graphic presentment of the life of a rural Rhode 
Island clergyman, in the reign of King George II, 
a century and a half ago. 

How, too, is the faithful stewardship of the DoSlor 
portrayed in the recital of innumerable services and 
baptisms and pastoral visits and all the countless 
incidents in the life of a tireless parish priest ever 

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goifjg in and out among his people. Even the allu- 
sions to forgotten controversies and long-buried jeal- 
ousies serve to remind us of the identity of human 
nature in the idealized past with that of the unillu- 
sioned present. 

There are not, however, wanting entries which con- 
cern the interests of the Church at large in those 
olden days, — the account of the meetings of the Con- 
vention at Newport in 1743 and 1745, the record 
of the visit of the famous George Whitefield at the 
same city in the latter year and the several refer- 
ences to the Rev. Samuel Seabury of New London. 
As a background to the ordinary local incidents 
abounding in the Diary, there may be found, likewise, 
hints of stirring events then enabling on the world's 
wider stage, — the ViBory at Dettingen on the Main 
in 1743, the Expedition to Cape Breton and the 
capture of Louis burg in 1745, ''''whence arises this 
Smoaky, noisy foy,'' as well as the celebration of the 
''''Coronation Day'' of King George II in iJS^, 
with '''■ye Guns of Rhode Island Fort fired on ye 
Occasion'' 

But perhaps the chief value of the Diary lies in the 
frequent introduction into its pages of prominent di- 
vines of the day and other people of distinBion and, 
especially, of members of the leading families of 
Narragansett and Newport. 

Among the former may be noted the Rev. fohn 
Checkley, a distinguished redlor of King's Church, 
Providence, the Rev. George Pigot earlier holding 
the same ofiice, the Rev. fames Honyman, the emi- 



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nent head of Trinity Church, Newport, the worthy 
Rev. 'John Usher, reSlor of S. Michael's, Bristol, 
the Rev. Ebenezer Thompson, the apostle ofScituate, 
Massachusetts, the Rev. Matthew Graves, reSior 
of S. fames' s Church, New London, the Rev. 
Arthur Browne, of Piscataqua, New Hampshire, 
who is said to have been the original of the ^'''ReSlor" 
in Longfellow's Tales of a Wayside Inn, as well as 
the Rev. Samuel Auchmuty, later a re£ior of Trinity 
Church, New York. Not less than a score of the 
honoured names on the ''''Missionary Roll" of that 
period, preserved in the Archives of the S. P. G., 
in London, appear in the Diary. 
Among the prominent citizens mentioned, not a few 
of them frequently, are Colonel Daniel Updike, At- 
torney General of the Colony, and several members 
of his family, ^'' Old Thomas Hazard" and many 
other Hazards, Gov. William Robinson, his stern 
son Rowland and others of the name. Col. Francis 
Willet, Dr. Silvester Gardiner and other Gardiner s 
almost innumerable, Daniel Ayrault of Huguenot 
fame, Thomas and Christopher Phillips, Moses 
Lippet, the progenitor of the well-known Lippitt 
family of Rhode hi and, fudge fohn Cole, Col. 
Christopher Champlin and the Vernon family of 
Newport. To these may be added Com. Sir Peter 
Warren, the Indian King, George Ninigret, and 
many others of greater or less importance, but all 
combining to make up a living piSiure of that far- 
away day. 
Not less than three hundred and seventy-five dis- 

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tinB individuals are referred to by name in the course 
of the Diary. 

Not improbably the minuteness and amplitude of the 
Notes appended^ in bulk about double the text, will 
appear, to many, out of due proportion, especially in 
view of the inconspicuous and very humble station 
of a large part of the persons treated. But it must 
be remembered that, after all, the chief interest of 
this homely chronicle is a local one. There are few 
persons mentioned who are not now represented in 
the South County by descendants or recalled for 
having contributed, in some manner, to ''''the rustic 
murmur of their bourg'' Even the most lowly names 
of all, Harry, Mar oca. Stepney, Tom, Sampson and 
Abigail, illustrate the manners of that day and its 
peculiar classes of people, — the negro slaves, In- 
dians and mustees, — thus helpmg to give colour and 
movement to the whole reproduBion of Narragansett 
every-day affairs, in the first half of the eighteenth 
century. 

Should it strike some readers that unnecessarily fre- 
quent references are attached to the recurrences of 
names, whose connexion with Notes has been al- 
ready sufficiently indicated, it may be remarked that 
many will not peruse the Diary continuously and 
will often find it convenient, wherever they chance 
to open it, to refer immediately to the corresponding 
Note. 

The apparently indifferent use, in the Diary, of 
''''ye'" and kindred antiquated forms and of our mod- 
ern ''''the'''' etc., and the occasional, but not uniform, 

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employment of contraSiions^ like g*^'" for contain^ 
show that language was then, as it always is, in- 
deed, in a process of transition. 

So, Gentle Reader, addressing you in the style of 
Advertisements oj books of the period under review, 
be indulgent and judge charitably this Modest At- 
tempt to bring to Life and set again in Motion the 
Figures found in this faded and mouldered 
Transcript of the Days of a hun- 
dred and ffty years ago. 



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JAMES MACSPARRAN, D. D. 
FROM THE PORTRAIT BY SMIBERT 




The Rev"^ James M^^'Sparran 

Doctor in DitJinitp 

in Narragansett^ New England 

)HE visitor to the Narragansett Coun- 
try, a century and a half ago, could 
not have remained long w^ithin its 
borders w^ithout encountering a 
portly elderly figure, — a kind of L)r. 'Johnson 
in clerical garb, — with a full, round, benevo- 
lent face encompassed by a massive vv^ig, mov- 
ing with an air of authority and self-contained 
dignity, such as could arise from only the most 
assured position in the community. This per- 
sonage, — for he was well worthy of the title, 
— was the Rev. James MacSparran, Do6lor in 
Divinity, Missionary of the Society for the Propa- 
gation of the Gospel in Foreign Farts and Reftor 
of S. Paul's Church, Narragansett. 
Probably in all New England, — perhaps 
throughout the American colonies, — at that 
day, there could have been seen no more ideal 
picture of a well-learned parish priest, beloved, 
respe6led, honoured, dwelling among his flock 
for more than a generation, and of a people 
exceptionally cultured, well-to-do, hospitable 
to a proverb, proud of their pastor, loyal to the 
Church and secure in the conviction that to be 
a Narragansett Flanter, with large estates and 



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troops of slaves, was a sufficient patent of aris- 
tocracy. 

Nor was the good Do6lor's parish any "pent 
up Utica," only two or three square miles in 
extent. Practically, it covered Southern Con- 
tinental Rhode Island, so far as it was then 
settled, — the territory now embraced in Kent 
and Washington Counties, some twenty miles 
broad and twenty-five miles long. Over those 
within this tra6t, acknowledging the authority 
of the Church of England, — that is, the ma- 
jority of the people of substance and stand- 
ing, — Dr. MacSparran ruled with a firm, if 
gentle, hand, frowning upon all straying into 
what he considered the thorny fields of dissent 
and striving, with faithful zeal and large ability, 
to gather the whole body of sheep into the safe 
Fold. 

But the Doctor's activities were not limited by 
ordinary parochial bounds, however ample their 
enclosure. Sometimes the Churchmen of Con- 
necticut appealed to him for guidance. 
In the ecclesiastical Councils of the period, 
whether held in Newport or Boston, he figured 
as a potent personality, ever listened to with 
consideration. 

He carried on, likewise, a correspondence with 
some of the leading clergy of New York. His 
representations and appeals were entertained 
by the Society in London and by the highest 
dignitaries in the Church of England. 
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Such having been, then, the character and the 
sphere of the author of the recently discovered 
manuscript Diary^ herewith presented to the 
world, a brief sketch of his career cannot, in 
this connexion, be deemed out of place. 

James MacSparran was born September lo, 
1 693, in, — as it is commonly believed, although 
we possess no direct evidence of the faft, — 
Dungiven, County of Derry, Ireland. When, in 
1752, in apprehension of the close of his life, 
aftually occurring only five years later, he sent 
the diplomas of his Master's and Doctor's de- 
grees to be recorded in the Parish Register of 
Dungiven, he pathetically expressed his desire 
to have his name "preserved in his native coun- 
try," as if that town had been the place of his 
birth. Not unlikely is it, however, that he 
merely intended to indicate that the islands in 
the British seas were his native country^ in dis- 
tinftion from his later place of residence in the 
American colonies. In any case young Mac- 
Sparran was of distinctly Scottish lineage and was 
quite possibly born in Scotland. 
An uncle, to whom he repeatedly alludes, the 
Rev. Archibald MacSparran, appears to have 
been long settled, as a Presbyterian clergyman, 
at Dungiven, being a land-holder and a man of 
good estate. There is a well-founded tradition 
that, about the year 1700, this relative brought 
over from Scotland to Ireland the only brother 
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of James, whose name was also Archibald and 
who eventually emigrated to Pennsylvania. 
How probable is it, from the evidently peculiar 
attachment of Dr. MacSparran to his uncle 
and his failure, in his extant writings, to allude 
to his father^ that he, also, was transferred, while 
still a lad, from the larger island and adopted 
by the good Dominie of Dungiven. But, even 
so, he must, somehow, have been inoculated, 
artificially, with genuine Irish serum. He pos- 
sessed the characteristic silver tongue of the ora- 
tor, as if he, too, had kissed the Blarney Stone. 
It was his singular eloquence that made him 
such a favourite at Bristol. The warm heart 
and choleric temper, also, of Erin were his. He 
records his profound grief at the death of one 
of his slaves, — a second Onesimus^ — and his for- 
bearance from beating another, in anger, on 
the expostulation of a gentler layman of his 
flock. Like Dean Swift, who was English in all 
but the accident of his birth in Dublin, he was 
not free from those delicious little slips in lan- 
guage, known as Irish bulls. He registers, for 
example, the baptism of Mr. and Mrs. Benja- 
min Mumford, both adults.^ and of Jeremiah, 
son of Peggy Pierce, his mother. He records his 
performance of the marriage of Dr. Edward 
Ellis to Abigail, his wife, and remarks that a 
certain man could not have been a Frenchman, 
since he was an Irishman. 

The MacSparrans of Scotland were a branch 
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of the MacDonalds of the Isles. It is related 
that the founder of the family was accustomed 
to wear a sack-like apron, called a sporran, and, 
habitually paying his retainers from this recep- 
tacle, came to be dubbed by his chieftain the 
Son of the Purse, — MacSporran, — the title 
clinging, with a slight modification in orthog- 
raphy, to his descendants, as a surname. It is 
known that a portion of the MacDonald clan 
dwelt in the Mull of Kintyre, the part of Scot- 
land reaching nearest to Ireland. It is likely, 
too, that that peninsula was the original home 
of the MacSparrans, Kintore, their recorded '^cot- 
tish residence, being either erroneously spelled 
or an alternative form. With such a lineage, it 
is not strange that young MacSparran, whether 
a native of Scotland or Ireland, possessed, as he 
was, of a bright mind and rare precocity, was 
sent, for his education, to the University of Glas- 
gow. There he took the degree of Master of 
Arts in 1709, at the astonishingly early age of 
fifteen, being styled, in his diploma, ^""ingenuus 
et probus adolescens, jacobus MacSparran^^ After 
completing his classical training, the "ingenuous 
and upright youth " eventually proceeded, prob- 
ably at the prompting of his clerical mentor at 
Dungiven,to study for the Presbyterian ministry 
and received credentials as a licentiate of the 
Presbytery of Scotland. 

With the circumstances first inducing Mr. 

MacSparran to emigrate to America, we are 

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entirely unacquainted, but find him landing in 
Boston in June, 171 8, at the age of twenty-four. 
While lingering in the Puritan capital he some- 
how came into contact with the redoubtable 
Cotton Mather and appears to have been un- 
lucky enough also to arouse his jealousy or 
disapproval. After a brief tarry there and at 
Plymouth and its vicinity, the young minister 
proceeded to visit a relative, the relid: of Peter 
Papillion, at Bristol, then embraced in the Ply- 
mouth Colony. The pulpit of the Congrega- 
tional church in that town chancing to be 
vacant, he was invited to occupy it on the first 
Sunday after his arrival, and made, at once, such 
an impression on the congregation, by his fine 
rhetorical powers and attractive person, that he 
was shortly asked to become the regular pas- 
tor, at the then liberal stipend of a hundred 
pounds sterling per annum. Soon, however, 
there arose, concerning him, a fierce contro- 
versy which embittered the town for years. 
Certain charges, probably dictated by rivalry, 
were hurled at the brilliant and popular young 
preacher and the bright sun of his opening 
ministry was quickly overclouded. What the 
specific accusations were has not transpired, it 
only appearing that they related to some un- 
guarded language or conduct while visiting 
near Plymouth. But, whatever they were, it is 
a matter of record at Bristol that a committee, 
especially appointed to investigate them, re- 

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ported favourably, Mr. MacSparran being fully- 
exonerated in town meeting. May 25, 171 9, 
by a vote unanimous but for a single excep- 
tion. 

But the mysterious opponent, whoever he was, 
was not to be thus baffled. It was next urged, 
from Boston, that the pastor-ele6t should not 
be installed, on the ground that his credentials 
were fraudulent, and leave was accordingly voted 
him, in Oftober, 1 7 1 9, to take a voyage to Ireland 
for their confirmation, with a provision that he 
should return the succeeding June. 
It appears that already for nearly a year Mr. 
MacSparran had afted as pastor at Bristol, being 
styled in the Town Records "our present min- 
ister." He, however, never returned to that 
charge. It was not until the spring of 1721 that 
he again sought the shores of the New World 
and then it was as a presbyter of the Church of 
England and a missionary of the Society for the 
Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts. 
What happened thus completely to change the 
status of the young theologue, in this interval 
of one and a half years, no chronicle of the 
fafts being preserved, it is easier to imagine 
than to affirm. The only existing light upon 
the question is contained in an allusion to the 
circumstance, in America T)isse5led^ written a 
generation later, when the now aging clergy- 
man remarks, "I have great reason to thank 
God, that I was afflicted and abused by a false 
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charge in my youth, as that opened me a way 
into the Christian priesthood in the most excel- 
lent of all churches^ This transparently sincere 
declaration in near view of the end of life, re- 
inforced as it was by thirty-six blameless years 
spent in Narragansett, sufficiently disposes, also, 
of the vague suspicions awakened at Bristol. The 
foundation of S. Michael's Church in that town, 
in 171 9, primarily due, as it is believed to have 
been, to the presence of early settlers already 
strongly attached to the Church of England, was, 
perhaps, expedited by the disaffe6lion to the Puri- 
tan organization of a considerable number of Mr. 
MacSparran's friends, in view of what they con- 
sidered his unwarrantable treatment. Whether 
the young Presbyterian licentiate accomplished 
this transformation of his ecclesiastical convic- 
tions during the long voyage to the Old World, 
in the Autumn of 171 9, or after his arrival on 
its shores, there is now no means of determin- 
ing. What is a matter of record is that he was 
ordained to the diaconate in the Church of Eng- 
land, by the Bishop of London, August 21, 1720, 
and to the priesthood, by the Archbishop of 
Canterbury, on the 25th day of the succeeding 
September, being licensed, by the former, on 
October 3rd of the same year, to discharge his 
ministerial office in the Province of New Eng- 
land. 

It was not, however, until the following spring 

that Mr. MacSparran sailed upon his return to 

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America, reaching Narragansett, Friday, April 
28, 1721. 

The commission of the Society, under whose 
auspices he came back, provides that he "shall 
also officiate, as opportunity shall offer, at Bris- 
tol, Freetown, Swansey and Little Compton, 
where there are many people, members of the 
Church of England, destitute of a minister." 
That the young missionary had not bettered 
himself, in a worldly point of view, is shown 
by the fa6t that, in place of the j[^i 00 per an- 
num offered him at Bristol, he received only 
jTyo in Narragansett. 

Ahhough the parish of S. Paul had been or- 
ganized about fifteen years before the advent 
of the new Reftor, little had been accom- 
plished by the fitful and intermittent efforts of 
his predecessors towards its enlargement and 
consolidation. Neither of the two incumbents, 
as he observes in America DisseSled^ had "had 
resolution enough to grapple with the difficul- 
ties of the mission above a year apiece." At the 
first recorded celebration of the Holy Commu- 
nion after the arrival of the long desired pastor, 
there were only seven to partake. He found, how- 
ever, a commodious church edifice, erefted in 
1707, in what is now the extreme southern part 
of North Kingstown (on the spot since occupied 
by the MacSparran monument) but removed, in 
1800, to the site in Wickford, where it still 
stands as an honoured relic of olden times. Its 
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high square pews with their panelled doors, its 
lofty and ample pulpit, its spacious galleries and 
its round-topped windows must have constituted 
it a very dignified and elegant structure in the 
eyes of primitive Narragansett. 
It was, no doubt, also a source of encourage- 
ment to the young incumbent to discover, upon 
the list of vestrymen, one known to be so able 
and devoted a Churchman as the famous Hu- 
guenot refugee, Gabriel Bernon, although his 
residence appears to have been already removed 
to Providence. Under the energetic exertions 
of Mr. MacSparran matters began rapidly to 
improve. Soon he was able to acquaint the Ven- 
erable Society that his congregation, though 
small at first, consisted then of about one hun- 
dred and sixty and that he had baptized thirty 
persons, six of them adults, the number of com- 
municants being twelve. The next year the 
congregation had increased, when he made his 
return, to two hundred and sixty, while, in the 
following one, all the Church people, young 
and old, amounted to three hundred. At the Eas- 
ter celebration of the Eucharist, in 1727, there 
were twenty communicants. The pastor devoted 
himself, with great self-sacrifice, to ministra- 
tions among also the Indians and negroes of 
his cure, frequently catechizing and instru6t- 
ing, before divine service on Sunday, a class 
of seventy of them. The baptism, in 1730, of a 
man of such commanding influence in the com- 
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munity as Col. Daniel Updike, Attorney-Gen- 
eral of the Colony and a very great landholder, 
and the adhesion to the Church of Judge Fran- 
cis Willet must have enhanced, not a little, the 
social status of the young parish of S. Paul. An 
event which affefted, very largely, the standing 
of the new^ Re6tor in Narragansett society, as 
well as ministered most beneficently to his do- 
mestic happiness, was his marriage a year after 
his arrival. May 22, 1722, by the Rev. James 
Honyman, of Newport, to Miss Hannah Gar- 
diner, a member of the numerous and influential 
Narragansett family of that name. Her brother 
Silvester, baptized as a lad a few days before the 
wedding, became a distinguished physician and 
the founder and eponym of the city of Gardiner 
in Maine. The Gardiners were allied, by mar- 
riage, with the powerful Robinson and Hazard 
families and, eventually, with the Updikes ; so 
that the bridegroom became identified with the 
highest social circles of Narragansett. Mrs. Mac- 
Sparran was a very handsome woman, being only 
seventeen years of age at the time of her mar- 
riage, and possessed such qualities of mind and 
heart that her husband charafterized her, with 
evident sincerity, at the close of her pilgrimage 
thirty-three years later, as "the most pious of 
women, the best of wives in the world." To great 
sprightliness of manner she added a master- 
ful spirit and such a fervid temperament as 
sometimes broke into a flame, being styled in 

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afFeftionate deprecation, on one occasion noted 
in the Diary, "my poor passionate dear." But it 
must be permitted to queens to have tempers. 
Early in the ministry of Mr. MacSparran, he 
obtained a tra6t of land on the easterly slope of 
what is now known as MacSparran Hill, in 
South Kingstown, extending to the long inlet 
of the sea, styled Pettaquamscutt or Narrow 
River. Upon this farm he built a comfortable 
mansion, since called the Glebe House ; but not, 
probably so styled, during his life, it not be- 
ing until subsequently the property of the par- 
ish. 

It was a good-sized, but not very large, two- 
storied, gambrel-roofed stru6ture, with a nar- 
rower wing attached to the southern end. In 
the main part of the house was a very long 
family room, in which the Sunday services 
were held, often for many weeks, during the 
severe winter weather, the church being re- 
mote from the Reftory as well as from a large 
part of the parish. This apartment is now di- 
vided into two. Although not blessed with 
children, both the Redlor and Mrs. MacSparran 
were very fond of young society and seldom 
remained long without guests from among their 
youthful kinsfolk. On one occasion the Doctor 
draws an idyllic picture of a family grouping 
in the "Great Room" on a very rainy 0(5lober 
day, when, as he himself sat writing, his wife 
had put her "Red Durance Petticoat" into the 
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frame and, with her niece Miss Betty Gardi- 
ner's assistance, was quilting it, while Robert 
Hazard, her nephew and an incipient M. D., 
was making such headway in "reading Phy- 
sick," as frequent glances at his fair cousin 
Elizabeth permitted. 

The south wing, not many years since demol- 
ished, contained, on the main floor, the Doctor's 
study, a very cheerful, sunny room, of ample 
dimensions, with windows on all sides but the 
north. 

What chiefly lent the apartment its delightful 
scholarly aroma was, of course, the beloved 
library of the Redtor, with its dignified row of 
russet-bound folios, of which there still remain, 
in the hands of a neighbouring clergyman, 
Pearson on the Greedy and Whitby s Commentary on 
the New Testament^ with their plain book-plates, 
inscribed "James MacSparran, His Book." 
The titles of some of the smaller volumes, also, 
have a quaint and old-world sound, — ne Ax 
laid to ye Root of the tree^ Religious Courtships Nel- 
son on ye Heats and Frosts ^ The Sick Unvisited^ and 
Whitby on Five Points. The Dodlor notes how, in 
1750, he loaned the above Religious Courtship 
to Xtopher Fowler, presumably a young man, 
but with what results there is, unfortunately, 
no record. 

It was in this cosy and comfortable san6lum that 

Dr. and Mrs. MacSparran were sitting, on the 

evening of "a brief November day," after 

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thirty years of their married life had passed and 
the lady had been very ill, when he records, in 
the Diary, so pleasantly, " my wife and I were 
making tea in ye study." Narragansett life, in 
those last century days, was of an exceedingly 
social type, and while the occupants of the 
Reftory were frequently entertained in the 
great hospitable mansions of Boston Neck, 
Tower Hill, Updike's New Town and Point 
Judith, they were not themselves a whit be- 
hind their wealthier parishioners in welcoming 
all comers to their door. 

Almost never were they without a guest and 
frequently was the plentiful table, in the 
"Great Room," filled to its amplest capacity. 
The Doctor's enumeration of those coming and 
going sounds more like the list of the arrivals 
and departures of an inn than of a modest pri- 
vate house. On one occasion, after he was fifty 
years of age, he remarks, very feelingly and not 
unnaturally, upon naming at least a dozen visi- 
tors "all here at once," "so much Company 
fatigues me at one time." 

Outside the Re6tory a pleasant prospe6l met 
the eye. The garden, planted with lilacs and 
old-fashioned flowers, fell in terraces to the 
highroad, where stood the Mounting Block, al- 
ways needful in the land of the famous Narra- 
gansett Pacers. Beyond the road, in summer, 
green fields sloped to the Narrow River, across 
which could be seen, boldly rising, the heights 
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of Boston Neck. Towards the northeast, the 
landscape, with its pretty lake, diversified by 
wooded points jutting into its bosom, was 
strikingly attractive. It must have been an ex- 
ceedingly agreeable view which the good Doc- 
tor beheld from his easterly windows, as now 
and then he raised his eyes when he paused to 
rest, in the middle of his sermon on the Enor- 
mity of Lay Reading or of the one on the Cold 
Winter of ij^o. 

Most notable of all events, variegating life in 
the quiet Narragansett Parsonage, was the visit 
of the celebrated George Berkeley, then Dean 
of Derry and subsequently Lord Bishop of 
Cloyne. It is recorded that soon after his arrival 
in Newport, in 1729, he went to Mr. Mac- 
Sparran's and remained for a somewhat length- 
ened period, preaching a sermon, on May i ith, 
from St. Luke 16:16. Impossible is it to doubt, 
however, that so honeyed an orator repeatedly 
preached in S. Paul's, as he is known to have 
done, with large acceptableness, in Trinity, 
Newport. Inasmuch as Berkeley's prime object, 
in crossing the sea, was to inquire into the con- 
dition and character of the Indians of the New 
World, the presence of so many members of 
the Narragansett tribe in the parish of his host 
furnished him with unusual facilities for his 
work. 

At one time he contemplated carrying out in 

that very locality his rather visionary scheme 

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for founding a college for the Indians, and a 
noble traft of land on Hammond Hill, a 
mile or two north of the Glebe House, is still 
pointed out as the College Reservation. But 
whatever his immediate purpose, the advent 
of this brilliant and genial Irish philosopher 
and ecclesiastic must have proved, in that slum- 
berous region, a most animating incident. 
In the band of enthusiastic young men, who 
formed the satellites of the Dean in his Amer- 
ican expedition, was the celebrated Scottish 
portrait painter, John Smibert, who also be- 
came a visitor at Mr. MacSparran's. He had 
just been sojourning in Italy and painting, 
for the last Medicean Grand Duke of Tus- 
cany, the pleasure-loving Giovan Gastone, the 
portraits of two or three Siberian Tartars, 
presented to him by Peter the Great. Very 
interesting, if not convincing, is it to note 
the tradition that, when Smibert tarried with 
Berkeley, in Narragansett, he immediately 
recognized the Indians of the country as being 
identical, in race, with the northern Asiatics, 
whom he had lately been portraying, thus sug- 
gesting that their progenitors had passed into 
America across Behring Strait. It is scarcely 
possible that this clever painter could have re- 
mained long in Narragansett without, also, 
relating, to those he met, some of his observa- 
tions in that land of poetry and art, where he 
had so recently been dwelling and which, then, 

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must have seemed so much more remote and 
enwrapped in so much greater mystery than in 
the present day of universal travel. Perhaps, on 
some w^intry night, when the snow lay deep 
on the Narragansett hills and the icy covering 
of the Bay, from shore to shore, was glittering 
in the light of the moon, while now and then 
the barking of a wolf or the growl of a bear 
in the neighbouring forest broke the brooding 
silence, and when everything around betokened 
such a contrast to sunny Italy, the visitor sat by 
the blazing logs in the broad fire-place of the 
"Great Room" at the Reftory and discoursed 
upon the pictures in the Ducal Gallery at Flor- 
ence. Perhaps he described that lovely work of 
Rafaello, as he would have called him then, 
the painting of the Virgin Mother and the 
Divine Child, which had been held so dear by 
a late Grand Duke that he was not content to 
gaze upon it only in his palace but carried it 
everywhere upon his travels, until it gained 
the title, which it has borne to the present 
day, of the Madonna del Granduca. 
Perhaps he pictured to his delighted listeners 
that other masterpiece of the painter of Urbino, 
which he must often have seen in the same col- 
leftion, now so familiar and so prime a favour- 
ite, the Madonna of the Chair, Or it may be 
he dwelt also upon the splendid work of the 
Spaniard, Velasquez, somehow added, from be- 
yond the Pyrenees, to the ducal collection by 
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the Arno, the equestrian portrait of Phihp IV, 
where, as in other pi(5tures of the Court Painter 
of Madrid, the horse seems, as has been said, 
to be " galloping out of the frame." 
It must have been a quarter of a century later 
that Dr. MacSparran baptized, with his father's 
name, that wondrous boy, the "son of Gilbert 
Stewart, ye Snuff Grinder," whose mill stood 
in sight of the Reftory door, — that boy des- 
tined to produce the immortal canvas of Wash- 
ington with a steed so fitted to remind one, by 
its pose and a6lion, of the Spanish painter's 
masterpieces. Who can tell but that some 
echoes of those glorious evenings by the Rec- 
tory hearth, when Smibert's audience was trans- 
ferred, as on the Magic Carpet, from shivering 
Narragansett to olive-clad Tuscany, may have 
persisted, through a generation, to fire the 
heart of the budding child of genius ? Who 
knows but that the little Elizabeth Anthony, 
erewhile the mother of Gilbert Stuart, Painter, 
may have sat along with Robert Hazard and 
Betty Gardiner, in acorner of the "Great Room " 
of the Glebe House, on some of those Ambro- 
sian Nights, and listened, with childhood's open 
ears and wondering eyes, to these tales of Italian 
art-treasures, to bear on the story of the Spanish 
horseman, in due time, to her offspring, sent 
down from among the gods .? 
How like a breath from another world must 
have seemed such converse with the genial 
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traveller, to the denizens of the primeval Nar- 
ragansett shore. 

But, forsaking fancy for well-attested faft, we 
can assert that to this painter, who had strayed 
so strangely from dreamy Florence to stern 
New England and who, later, took up his 
residence in Boston and portrayed so many of 
her worthies, we owe the existing portraits of 
Dr. and Mrs. MacSparran. As Smibert re- 
mained in America until his death, a score of 
years after Berkeley's return to England, it is 
not necessary to surmise that these portraits 
are of the date of his original visit at the Rec- 
tory. The mature aspe6l of the Do6tor, in the 
pifture, even making allowance for the digni- 
fying influence of the wig, indicates a consider- 
ably greater age than the thirty-seventh year 
he had attained in 1729, while, although ladies 
never grow old, his spouse certainly looks more 
than twenty-five. 

It was the Doctor's cherished wish that his 
portrait should, after his death, be hung in the 
hall of his old friend. Col. Henry Gary, at 
Dungiven in Ireland, but it, nevertheless, re- 
mained, with that of Mrs. MacSparran, in the 
possession of the Gardiners, at the city of Gardi- 
ner, Maine. It is related that the late Wilkins 
Updike, Esqr., of Kingston, a lively chronicler 
of those old days, caused one of his daughters, 
possessing a talent for painting, to be instructed 
in the art, with an especial view to producing the 
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very creditable copies of the portraits now in the 
cabinet of the Rhode Island Historical Society 
in Providence and those still hanging in the Up- 
dike family mansion at Little Rest. The origi- 
nal pi6ture of the Doctor was bequeathed by a 
member of the Gardiner family to Bowdoin 
College, Brunswick, Maine ; the portrait of 
Mrs. MacSparran was given to the Museum of 
Fine Arts, Boston. Both have found, therefore, 
permanent resting-places which are accessible 
to the public. 

It was soon after the departure of Dean Berke- 
ley from Rhode Island, about the end of 1731, 
that there occurred, in the quiet life of Mr. 
MacSparran's parish, another incident associ- 
ated with the early history of the Church in 
New England. On May 27, 1733, he was 
called upon to marry the Rev. Samuel Seabury, 
minister of the Church at New London, to 
Mrs. Elizabeth Powell of Narragansett. The 
first wife of Mr. Seabury had been a cousin of 
Mrs. MacSparran, and her son, Samuel, born in 
1729, became the first Bishop of Conne6licut 
as well as the first in the Episcopal Church in 
America. The elder Mr. Seabury was, origi- 
nally, a Congregational minister, but, largely 
through intercourse with his kinsman of S. 
Paul's, conformed to the Church of England 
during the infancy of his illustrious son, about 
1730. 

To James MacSparran it was, therefore, to a 
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great extent due that Samuel Seabury, the 
younger, was reared amidst churchly surround- 
ings and thus trained for his signal position. 
After a residence of fifteen years in Narragan- 
sett Mr. MacSparran made a voyage to Eng- 
land, his absence extending from June, 1736, to 
August, 1737. It was during this visit that he 
was honoured with the degree of Do6tor of 
Sacred Theology, by the University of Oxford, 
it having been ascertained, as the stately Latin 
of the diploma sets forth, " that the Rev. James 
MacSparran, Master of Arts, a Presbyter of the 
Church of England, of the British Colony 
called Rhode Island, is distinguished among 
the Divines in the West Indies (apud Indos Occi- 
dentales)^ occupied with the propagation of the 
Gospel, for his talents, learning, good deport- 
ment, judgment and gravity, deserving to be 
numbered among the first thereof." 
With all due allowance for the formal laudation 
of academic documents, it is believed that the 
above commendation is so far just, as that the 
newly-made Do6lor was probably the ablest of 
all the missionaries sent out by the Society, to 
New England, during that early period and 
certainly among the most erudite. Although 
the style of his sermons, after the fashion of 
that day, was somewhat pedantic and perhaps 
overladen with classical allusions, Marius, 
Pompey, Philip of Macedon and "the wise 
Cato" figuring in his discourse on the Cold 
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Winter of 1740, and Mercury, Jove, Tiberius 
and Nero in his convention sermon at New- 
port in 1747, yet are they evidently the pro- 
duction of a consummate scholar and ready 
thinker. Right nobly does the preacher say of 
S. Paul, in the latter discourse, " He surely 
had a masculine and flowing eloquence, a cer- 
tain majestic simplicity of words that entered 
the hearts of his hearers. . . . Had there not 
been a majesty in his speech, whereby he spoke 
greatly of great things, it is not likely the Lys- 
trians would have mistaken him for . . . fove's 
interpreter.'' America DisseSled, composed in 
1752, is a series of familiar letters to friends in 
Ireland, rather than a literary work. In this 
treatise Dr. MacSparran mentions that he in- 
tended publishing A History of New England 
and there is a tradition that he actually wrote 
An Account of the Narragansett Country, but, if 
either ever appeared, it is not now extant. One 
of the most singular productions of Dr. Mac- 
Sparran's facile pen was a discourse, written in 
1 75 1 and preached at the Court on Tower 
Hill before Thomas Carter, a criminal con- 
demned to die for murder and soon after actu- 
ally hanged in irons, he being the last in America 
to meet his end in that manner. This curious 
sermon is now deposited in the Registry of 
the Diocese of Rhode Island. There is in it 
no "beating about the bush," the text being 
St. Matthew v. 21, "Ye have heard that it was 
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said by them of old time, T/iou shall not kill^ 
The preacher is careful to repeat this text in 
the original Greek, so that the poor murderer 
may be assured that there is no possible loop- 
hole for escape through hermeneutic subtleties, 
as he must be so likely to be contemplating. 
One of the main propositions which the Doc- 
tor strives to establish is the somewhat evi- 
dent one that "murder is an a6l of excessive 
mischief and cruelty to our neighbour." Alto- 
gether, it may well be questioned whether the 
criminal suffered the keener torture in listen- 
ing, " in the presence of a numerous congrega- 
tion," to this very personal discourse, or in the 
subsequent consummation of the tragedy, at 
the foot of Tower Hill. 

It was after Dr. MacSparran's return to Rhode 
Island, in the ripest period of his life, while he 
was at the height of his commanding position 
in the Narragansett community, that the manu- 
script Diary, discovered more than a century 
after his death, was kept during 1743, 1744, 
1745 and 1 75 1. In it he sets down many 
things that testify, in the frankness of self- 
communion, to the great qualities of his heart 
as well as of his mind, — his unfeigned piety, his 
zeal for the souls of men, his family affe6tion, 
his justice towards great and small, — and, also, 
it must be acknowledged, just as frankly and 
simple-heartedly, not a few of his own failings 
and foibles. 

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He was frequently suspicious of his friends 
where no good grounds for suspicion appear. 
Again and again was he profoundly disturbed 
by dreams, particularly when he saw himself 
separated from his friends by water, although 
measurably consoled by the absence of the 
added sensation of having thereby wet his feet. 
Lay-reading was an abomination in his eyes. He 
looked with little favour upon what he styled 
"New England men," among the clergy, who 
had not, like himself and Mr. Honyman, had 
the good fortune to be born in Great Britain 
or Ireland ; bequeathing his farm for the use 
and support of bishops whose jurisdiction 
should include the Narragansett Country, pro- 
vided that at least the Jirst three should have 
been born or educated abroad, — a provision 
which would have excluded all the bishops of 
Rhode Island to the present moment. 
At one time he records, with evident depreca- 
tion, as if derogatory to his dignity, that 
"necessity compelled him to pitch hay." 
His low estimation of all religious teachers out- 
side his own church sometimes led him into 
unseasonable remarks and occasionally into ill- 
timed jocularity, rebounding upon himself. 
There dwelt, not far from the Glebe House, a 
humble Quaker, of poor natural abilities and 
little or no education, but withal esteemed a 
wonderful preacher. Of so small capacity that 
he got his living by the most menial labour 
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and a very poor living at that, receiving noth- 
ing for his preaching, he was one day employed 
in laying a stone-wall by the roadside, when the 
Do6lor, passing on horse-back, reined up his 
steed and demanded, with slightly cumbrous 
wit, " Well, James, how many barrels of pud- 
ding and milk will it take to make forty rods of 
stone-wall ? " Whereupon James dropped the 
stone in his hands into its place and, looking 
straight up at his somewhat self-sufficient inter- 
locutor, replied, "Just as many as it will take 
of hireling priests to make a Gospel minister ^ 
Perhaps the good Doftor had visions floating 
through his mind, about that moment, of some 
of Mr. Smibert's Siberian Tartars and methods 
of capturing them. 

But, like very small spots on a very large sun, 
these petty failings of the Narragansett evange- 
list are lost in his really magnanimous Christian 
spirit, and their memory serves only to accentu- 
ate the rather obvious faft that, with all his ex- 
alted virtues, he, too, belonged among the frail 
sons of men. He went on his endless round of toil 
year after year, through a generation, preaching 
the Word, teaching the ignorant, lifting up the 
lowly, ministering by the bedside of the sick 
both to spirit and body, — for he frequently afted 
as a physician, — impressing his own elevation 
of character on all around him and, if any man 
ever did, "working while it was day." Except 
for him, Narragansett would not be what it is. 
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But at length, congenial as had been, in many as- 
pefts, his lot, there came a time when his thoughts 
began to turn, with eager craving, towards his 
childhood's home and the society of his kindred 
and he felt an irrepressible desire for change. 
In a letter to his cousin in Ireland, the Rev. 
Paul Limrick, written November lo, 1752, 
N. S., on the threshold of three-score, the 
weary wayfarer remarks with touching pathos, 
{ " As the shadows lengthen, as the sun grows 
low ; so, as years increase, my longings after 
Europe increase also. My labours and toils are 
inexpressible and age makes them still more in- 
tolerable." The lithe, aftive youth who sought 
Narragansett at the age of twenty-seven, has 
been metamorphosed, by "the process of the 
years," into an exceptionally stout, unwieldy 
old man, half doubting the warmth of his wel- 
come among the friends of his early days. "I 
know you would be pleased with the person and 
accomplishments of my comort" he assures his 
kinsman, "but how you would fancy a full- 
bodied fat fellow, like old Archibald of the 
Hass," he goes on to say, " I cannot tell till I 
try." Even somewhat earlier, there are mysteri- 
ous intimations, in his diary, of a project for en- 
tering on a new and broader field. A scheme, 
which he calls, quite enigmatically, "my salt- 
water interest," dominates his thoughts for a 
considerable period. He hints at a petition, 
which he has presented to the Commodore 

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commanding the Royal squadron in North 
America, his countryman, Sir Peter Warren, 
Almost pitiful is it to observe his boyish eager- 
ness for success, veiled under obscure intima- 
tions, and his faithful spouse's ingenious device 

of" 2i present to ye C re," and we hardly know 

whether to smile at the simple-heartedness of the 
primitive offering, — "6 Hams, some Beets, an 
old cheese and a Barril of Apples," — sent off 
from Newport " on Board Vernon's vessels," like 
Jacob's gift to the lord of Egypt, — "a little balm 
and a little honey," — or to drop a tear of genuine 
sympathy over the evident failure of the ven- 
ture. There must have been some dark and 
gloomy days that year, in the ordinarily sunny 
Narragansett Rectory, as the elderly occupants 
saw the autumn lengthening into winter and 
"ye Commodore" sent no response. Perhaps the 
Do6lor indited a sermon, during the season, on 
the text, "Put not your trust in princes." 
In any case, the curtain fell upon the rainbow- 
hued project and left no recorded sign. 
It was not until the summer of 1754 that there 
was carried out the long cherished purpose of 
Dr. MacSparran to make one more visit to Eng- 
land, this time taking his wife with him, with 
an intention of seeking a provision on that shore 
for the rest of his days. There is a tradition that 
he had an alternative prospeft, likewise, of be- 
ing consecrated a bishop for the New England 
Church. But the outcome of the journey was 
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far more tragical than could have been antici- 
pated. Not only was it written, in the Book of 
Fate, that the pilgrim should not come back 
with a mitre, an English bishop not being yet 
persona grata in the land of the Puritans, — 
it was thirty years before Seabury became the 
pioneer, — and that he should not even find a 
settlement in the British Isles, but that he should 
leave behind him, on that distant strand, the be- 
loved and constant companion of a third of a 
century. In the early summer of 1755 Mrs. Mac- 
Sparran contracted the small-pox in London. 
The sad incidents are best recited in the affect- 
ing entry made by the husband himself in the 
Narragansett Parish Register, upon his return 
in the latter portion of that year or the early part 
of 1 7 5 6, — " The Doctor being returned from ye 
sorrowful and fatal voyage he made to England, 
where his wife died and was buried in Broadway 
Chapel burying-ground in Westm"". She died ye 
24th of June a few minutes after 1 2 in ye morn- 
ing and was interred on ye evening of ye 25th." 
It is a striking example of the childlike simpli- 
city of the Do6lor's mind that, after detailing the 
bearers and the mourners, he appears to draw 
a shadow of comfort from continuing, "The 
Corpse was carried in a Hearse drawn by six 
Horses and two mourning coaches, one for ye 
service of ye bearers and ye other for ye ReV^ 
and two Mourners." The spot is still pointed 
out where Mrs. MacSparran lies interred, in a 
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grassy churchyard, hard by Victoria Street in 
Westminster, within the sound of the feet of 
the mighty throng and the noise of the multi- 
tudinous traffic for ever proceeding between 
the Houses of Parhament and the Abbey, on 
the one hand, and Buckingham Palace and Vic- 
toria Station, on the other. A few years since, 
her nephew in the fourth degree, Mr. Daniel 
Berkeley Updike, the ancient inscription having 
become nearly illegible, caused her name, " Han- 
nah MacSparran," to be distinftly recut upon the 
stone, then lying flat in the turf, near the main 
door of what is now called Christ Church. This 
slab, however, with many other old stones near 
it, has been lately sunken beneath the surface ; 
so that no visible trace abides of the slumbering- 
place of the hapless visitor, who fell far from 
her Narragansett home. 

Not much remains to be recorded concerning 
her consort. Although returning bereaved and 
baffled in his plans, he is said to have declared 
that " he would rather dwell in the hearts of his 
parishioners, than wear all the bishop's gowns 
in the world." 

In broken spirits and with decaying vigour, but 
still struggling as best he could through his 
round of duties, two years later the summons to 
the aged warrior to lay down his armour came 
to the silent Redtoryon the Pettaquamscutt, but 
erewhile so filled with joyous voices. After an 
interval of six weeks since the Redlor's last entry 
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in his own chirography, some friendly hand in- 
scribed upon the Narragansett Parish Register, 
the following record. "On ye 5th day of De- 
cember A. D. 1757 ye Rev'^ Doctor James Mac- 
Sparran died at his House in South Kingstown, 
who was minister of S. Paul's Church in ye Nar- 
ragansett for ye space of Thirty Seven years, and 
was decently interred under ye Communion 
Table in said Church, on ye sixth day of said 
month. Much Lamented by his Parishioners and 
all whom he had Acquaintance with." 
It is almost solely due to the late enthusiastic 
student of Narragansett ecclesiastical records 
and traditions, Wilkins Updike, Esqr., of Kings- 
ton, the author of the well-known History of 
the Narragansett Churchy that the memory of 
Dr. MacSparran has been kept green. Nor need 
there be conceived any nobler or more eloquent 
eulogy than the simple sentences, in which Mr. 
Updike summarizes the career of the honoured 
veteran. 

"Thus ended," he writes, "the pilgrimage of 
the most able Divine that was sent over to this 
country by the Society for the Propagation of 
the Gospel. With manly firmness, and with the 
undaunted courage of the Christian soldier, 
ready to combat and die in the hallowed cause, 
he triumphed over all the difficulties of this la- 
borious and untried mission. Clad in gospel ar- 
mour, and inspired by a supreme love to God, he 
succeeded in planting the Church of the Re- 
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deemer here and gathered numerous devoted 
followers around the altar." 

2te, iSiL ii/L ^ ^ ^ 2^ 2SI 

It was not until more than a century had 
elapsed, after the decease of Dr. MacSparran, 
that any monument marked his resting-place. 
The Church, under which he was buried, hav- 
ing been removed to Wickford in 1800, the 
spot seemed destined to be forgotten. In 1868, 
however, chiefly as a result of the interest cre- 
ated by Mr. Updike's book published a score 
of years before, a costly and substantial memo- 
rial of granite, surmounted by a cross, was erefted 
by the Churchmen of Rhode Island, near the 
tumulus of earth traditionally marking the exaft 
site of the grave, and dedicated, in June 1869, 
by the Bishop and other clergy, in the presence 
of several hundred deeply interested laymen. Al- 
ready has the silent churchyard containing the 
monument, five miles south of Wickford, be- 
come a place of pilgrimage. Doubtless, as the 
years roll by, more and more pious feet will press 
the turf beneath the massive cross, in token 
of their veneration for the Apos- 
tle of Narragansett. 




A Letter Book 




MRS. MAC S P A RR A N 
FROM T HK PORT R A n BY SMIBKRT 



1 >OK 

act of C>u r 



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^r 29^' Trinity & 
Mr. Plant* of Newbury 
'^ "ophlhis Morris^ o<^ 
) their wav to the ( 



secret ] 

the Pri'v..; ■.... ^.-x,......, ., .. .,, . 

■^ Commissary does not exert him. 

' 5''' Mr. Morris officiated at my churc 
' ' '"ciated at Conanicut.' 

' to Col. Updike's '° on nv 

' at Co 



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'uly 5 y Reason 

ot L:\, .. break off 

their har not go. 



LETTER BOOK 

:ab0tract of ^ut S)ert)tces' 



1743-1751 




v^r 29*-" Trinity & y" Restoration.' 
Mr. Plant* of Newbury and Mr. 
Theophilus Morris' officiated for 
me in their way to the Convention.^ 



7une i''- The clergy met at Newport. Mr. Check- 
ley^ preached. Many secret Doings to obtrude 
ministers on Places without their Privity or 
the Privity of Commissary.^ No Peace in y^ church 
if Commissary does not exert himself. 
June the c,"-^- Mr. Morris officiated at my church and 
I went and officiated at Conanicut.^ 

June ii""- Went to Col. Updike's '° on my way to 
Coeset church." 

[June'] 12^- I officiated at Coeset church and bap- 
tized one child and gave notice of y" Sacrament the 
next time, viz^, i"^ Sunday in July. 
June I9'''- At St. Paul's.'* 
\_June~\ 21. I preached at Conanicut. 



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'uly 5'''- People so busy at Conanicut, by Reason 
of Drought & worms, could not break off 
their harvest to attend, so I did not go. 

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1743 y^^y lo'*'' I preached at Coeset, administered y^ Eu- 
w~^ — • charist, received a new Communicant, viz*, Nurse 
Bell, alias Mrs. Baker. Miller Major StaflFord,'' Dun- 
bar, Mr. Francis'* at church etc. 

July 12"*- Rained. 

[y^/jy] 13. Rained all last night in great mercy to us. 
I have been full of melancholy and Dulness ever since 
Sunday night. Lord lift up the light of y^ Countenance 
upon me. Am now going to visit at Bro' Jn°'.'^ Lord 
dired: our Conversation. 

[y///y] 14*" I visited George Hazard's wife,'^ who, I 
think, is better. Open a door there for spiritual Con- 
versation. He carried me over the Narrow River '^ in 
a canoe and y" swam over my Horse. I visited my 
Sister Robinson,'^ whose sore has been cut the third 
time. 

Recuperato eam^ Domine^ to her former Esteem of y^ 
Sacraments.'^ 

I left my wife*° with her Sister, where I also found 
her, and returned home with Rowland Robinson*' 
and his wife. He carried my tropick Bird" home 
with him to pasture @ 3''' 6'* per week. It looks like 
rain. 

[y^/y] I5'''- It rained all night. I have been in my 
Study all Day. It hath rained all Day. Stepney*' payed 
3** per Plant for y" CoUiflowers. Capt. Ailmy*'* made 
me a present of an old cheese. Stepney brought home 
y^ morning ^ of an hundred and 7 pound Sugar, 
which at £g per ct.*^ cost me JC^'] : 6. My wife is de- 
tained by the Rain. 

\_July] 16"' My wife came from Mr. Robinson's in 
Company with Billy Hazard.*^ 

[July] \f^- Officiated at St. Paul's. 

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[7«/y] iS'^- Anth:«* Daniel Wier^^ and Harry*' 1743 
reaped the wheat/^ '— v— ' 

[7^6'] 1 9"'" My wife and I visited Anstis'° and Judge 
Willet,'' & that night with moon Light the two ne- 
gro's carted the wheat into the Barn, with WilHam 
Gardiner's'^ oxen, mare and Cart. 

[7^/)'] 20. Geo. Hazard's wife wrote me she had 
caught cold. Answered her Letter and promised to 
go there on Saturday. Anstis sent two pound Butter 
by Moll. 

[Ja/y] 21. Emblo" has been this morning at Mr. 
Robinson's'* and bro't one Q' of mutton and one 
of Lamb and says Mrs. Ailmy*'* intends [coming] 
here this afternoon. 

This afternoon Mistress Ailmy came & a little after 
her Husband to stay all night. 

[y^/y] 22. Capt. Ailmy and his wife and Col. Up- -^ 

dike'° lodged here. The two former dined with us 

and, a little after, Mr. Seabury'^ arrived, who bro't 

me Letters, one from Mr. Morris,* another from 

Mr. Stewart.'^ 

I doubt it will not be for y*' Good of y^ church or 

Morris's Comfort to come to New London. 

May God rule all to his own Glory, the Good of y* 

church and clergy. 

[y^/y] 23. Mr. Seabury went to Newport y' morn- 
ing. It rains today. Gracious God dired me in all 
my ways and cause thy Countenance to shine through 
and dispel the Clouds of humane {sic) Malice and un- 
grounded and endless Calumny'^ y^ hangs over me. 
And in y'' great Goodness bring to a sight and sense 
of his sinful ways my poor Bro' Arnold,'^ who seems, ; 
from no Provocation, but in obedience to the Evil 

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iy4j one he dwells with, to oppose the Progress of y" 

' — ^ — church in y' poor, benighted Island.'^ 

To thee, o God, I look for Help. Mr. Gibbs*° is come 
here from Newport. He is going for orders. Good 
Lord make him an Instrument of much Good, and 
let his Contemners see, y' thou seest not as men see; 
but y* he is singled out for eminent Service in y'' 
church. It thunders and I believe will rain again. 
Prepare me for the Lord's Day and go with me to 
y'' House. Else send me not thither. 

[7^6'] ^4^'^' Sunday. It rained hard last night & this 
morning but cleared away soon enough to have a 
fuller Congregation than we had. I catechized y^ Ne- 
gro's,"^' y^ white children, read Prayers and preached. 
Lord enlighten y'' understanding and spiritualize the 
Affedions of Cujo, the negro, who told me he has 
thought of Baptism. Prepare him. Good Lord, for 
such an Entrance into y^ church, y'' Kingdom here, 
as shall terminate in his free and welcome Admittance 
into y*" church triumphant, thy glorious Kingdom 
above. Mrs. Patty Updike"^* lodged here last night & 
walked to church.*^ My wife was not at church. . . . 

[7^6'] ^S'""' S^' JcLvnss s Day. It is fine, hot, sunshiny 
weather. Mr. Mumford,"^ Dr. Hooper"^' and a Scotch 
Dr."^^ dined with me upon fine veal Mr. Mumford 
bro't. In the afternoon, I visited y^ young Squire,'^^ 
who is sick at North Kingstown and sent for me. I 
prayed with him and gave him some diredlions.'** 
[y«/y] i6. I visited George Hazard's wife,'* crossed 
y^ Narrow River, went to see sister Robinson,'^ called 
at Esq. Mumford's,'^^got home by moon Light&found 
Billy Gibbs"^" here. Very hot weather these two days 
past. 

[Julyl Q.f^- Wrote, per Mr. Gibbs, to Mr. Roe^° & 

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^ft0tract of Cut ^txWts. 

Dr. Gardiner,^' and to Martin'^ of Newport, to pro- ij^^ 
mote a colledlion for Gibbs. — , — - 

My wife had y^ Hysterick last night. Benjamin 
Mumford" visited us y' evening. 

[y^/y] 28. A hot Day. My wife is gone, with her 
niece Anstis,*' to visit at Benjamin Mumford's. Un- 
cle Mumford,"'"^ in his way to Boston, bro't me a 
Letter from y^Ch. Wardens, imploring my Assistance 
that Mr. Morris' might not be their minister. 
If God make him counselable, he will not. I wrote to 
the commissary & Dr. Gardiner. 

[7^6'] ^9'*^' ^^ "^y study all day. My wife visited at 
Mr. Robinson's, viz* her sister's, who is now, blessed 
be God, able to walk ab'. She visited also at Mr. 
Joseph Mumford's.'"^ He gave her a Fan, 9sh. price. 
Mr. Honyman,'' (God forgive him for venting 
slanders at second Hand,) makes it his Business to 
complain of my not doing my Duty at Warwick. 
W" he was sick, I used him in a better manner and 
now, tho' his People complains they cannot under- 
stand him, yet I have never encouraged them to 
make him unhappy. Lord, cleanse his Heart from 
malice and Pride. Received Com. Garden's'^ L' dated 
July 8'^- 1743. 
Gazzet inclosed." 

[7«/y] 30"^- William Murray fell from a Cart at Bro' 
Jn° Gardiner's.'^ I went and bled him. He could 
speak and knew every body. Complained his neck 
was broke. My men made the Fence on south side 
of the wood Lane. Shaw'^ bro't Home my saddle for 
w'^'' I paid him in Full j[g. I sent J^6 to Taylor for 
Flocks,'^ 2sh. for two chickens to Aunt Sherman.^ 
Lord, hear all my Prayers & make me more lively 
in my Devotions. 

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1743 [7^6'] 31''' Sunday. I hear W'"- Murray is dead. Give 
w-^^ — ' me thy presence, my God, at thy house, in Instruct- 
ing the negro's, in preaching, praying & praising. 

yfug'st i^'- 1743. Col. Homans dined with me. I 

yj[ wrote Bro' Arnold'^ an expostulatory L' upon 

the Causeless Abuses, he has lately given me. 

Aug'st a""*' I preached at Conanicut. Capt. Paine^' 

promised me to deliver Mr. Arnold my letter as 

soon as he should come home from Milford. 

I dined at Home and Col. Updike is here in order 

to stay all night. 

We have had a shower of Rain and it's likely to be 

more. I complained to Col. Updike of my bad usage 

from Mr. Honyman" and Arnold. 

August 3'*' 1743. We have had a fine Rain a great part 
of last night and this morning. I am now sat down 
to write in Favour of Mr. Gibbs**" i U to y^ Arch 
Bp.,'* I L^ to Bp. LondV' i L' to Mr. Sandford, i 
L' to the Society. 

Col. Updike, Uncle Mumford and Capt. Mumford^* 
lodge here tonight. 

I had a L' from y^ Commissary, who is tender of 
Mr. Morris' and, yet, loth he should stay at New 
London. Lord, please to quiet and compose those 
People's Spirits and make them more tractable, and 
forgive those of the western Clergie,^' who have too 
much contributed to aggravate Morris's Indiscretion 
and unguardedness. 

Aug' St ^"^^ 1743. The 3 Gentlemen, y' lodged here, 
went to Court.^*^ My men are threshing wheat. 
\_August\ 5""- Col. Updike and Uncle Mumford 
lodged here. I wrote a pacificatory L' to y' Ch. 
Wardens of New London; but heard, this Evening, 

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they had, vi & armis, opposed Morris's Entrance 1743 
into y^ church. Seabury simple^'' in Countenancing w.^— ' 
them so far as to preach to y"". A great Indignity 
to the Priesthood, w'*" y^ Clergy should properly re- 
sent & no doubt the Society will. Lord grant the 
Innocence or Repentance of Morris may appear. 
Col. Coddington^^ dined here. 
\_Augusf\ 6^^' Col. Coddington, who lodged at Ja?. 
Helmes,^ called in his way home and so did Col. 
Updike. 

[August] Sunday the y"'* I read prayers, preached and 
administered y^ Eucharist to 18 persons. It rained 
while we were at the Altar. O y^ God would shower 
down his Grace into our Hearts and make us fruit- 
ful in Holiness. It rained again in the Afternoon. 
\_August~\ 8'*' Day. I 've let my Cows into the upper 
after Feed and have sent Stepney to Town,'° with 
Gibbs's Packet,^' to fetch nails and salmon, to pay for 
two Bags and buy a Pound chocolate. Mrs. Cole,^* 
her Daughter Naby, & Will'" Mumford^^ of New- 
port his two eldest Daughters dined here, & Mr. 
Willet'' visited us in the afternoon, & Mrs. Peck- 
ham, Mrs. Kenny and hauty Daughter were here 
in the Evening. 

[August] 9* 'Tuesday. Winnowed the wheat and we 
are setting out, this Afternoon, for Col. Updike's in 
our way to Warwick,^'^ to Saml Chase's ^^ wedding. 
[August] id^' We set out, after Dinner, from Col. 
Updike's and arrived at Warwick just as the great 
Tempest of wind, thunder. Lightning & Rain began. 
I married Samuel Chase to Freelove Lippet^^ in the 
time of y^ Tempest. Lodged at Abraham Francis's.''^ 
[August] ii'''- Dined at Mr. Lippet's''^ and then set 
out and reached Col. Updike's. '° 

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1743 \_-^ugusi] 12. Spent this Day at Col. Updike's. 

— , — ' [_y^ugust] 13. Saturday. A prodigious Rain w"'' hin- 
dered the Col. & I from going to dine with Col. 
Mauny.^^ Fair in the afternoon. 
\_Augusf\ 14. Sunday. I read Prayers and preached at 
Coeset Ch. & dined at Col. Updike's &, then, 
reached Home. My servants told me that the un- 
happy Mr. Arnold ^^ is come over to the Quaker 
meeting. That Lewd woman will ruin him. This is a 
confirmatory Instance y' the Conventicle is the Sink 
ofy'^Ch. 

[August] 15'^- Capt. Benj" Wickham79 called here 
and told us Mr. Watmough^° & wife sent us their Ser- 
vice in his last L'. 

\_August'\ \G^- Last night we apprehended Thieves 
were aV y" House. I opened Manny Clark's Car- 
buncle^' and let out much matter. Benj" Mumford's^' 
Eldest Son and Daughter and W""- Mumford's two 
eldest Daughters ^^ & W""- Clark's Son Latham visited 
and drank Tea here, and Stepney went to Mill and 
Harry began to dig stones. 

[August'] ly'**- PF'ednesday, Sent Stepney to catch Col. 
Updike's mare who stoped by the way and he carried 
her to Mrs. Cole's.^' 

Benjamin Mumford & Anthony^* were here talking 
about y^ shingling y^ church and say it will be done 
in two or three Days more. 

Col. Updike and Jn° Cole Esq.^' supped here upon 
Smoaked Salmon & red Herring. A great Flux of 
Humors has fell into my Eyes. 
[August] I S'*'' Thursday. I slept better last night. My 
Fever is less but my Eyes still sore. 
[August] Kf"- Friday. 
[August] 10. Saturday. 

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:at)gtract of Dut ^ertjtces. 

\_^ugusf\ 21. Sunday. Read Prayers & preached at 1743 
my own Ch. Anstis" & D'- Hazard^"^ dined with us. • — ^-w 
Young Jo: Whiple^^ was at Ch. 
[Jugust] ^a"'*- Monday. Mr. William Robinson & 
wife'^ & his Son Will^^ dined with us y' Day. I gave 
her 40'''' to give Robert.^* 

\_August\ 23. 'Tuesday. I immersed Mr. Thomas El- 
dred.^^ His witnesses, Daniel Wier/^ Benjamin 
Mumford, Mrs. Cole, who, with Benjamin Mum- 
ford's wife, Mr. Stewart's'*^ maid, Sarah^ old Tho* 
Hazard^^ and Tom Walmsley^^ were present at the 
Baptism, all w""*" People and Mr. George Hazard's 
wife'° dined with us. 

In the afternoon Mrs. Updike and her Daughter 
came and staid all night. 

\Augusi\ 24. Wednesday. After Dinner Mrs. Updike, 
my wife. Miss Molly ^' and Harry to wait on y"" 
drove to Tower Hill, thence to Curtis's^* and got 
safe Home in a Shower at night. 
\_August\ 25. Thursday. I drove my wife and Mrs. 
Updike her Daughter to Esq' Willet's,^' where we 
dined and were well entertained. 
My twin Calves were sent there y^morningto wean. God 
being Good to us, we returned all home safe at night. 
\Augusi\ 26. Friday. After Dinner Mrs. Updike, her 
Son, Daughter and Jn" Updike^^ took their leave and 
went Home. 

\Augusi\ 1^. Saturday. \ drove my wife to Mrs. Cole's 
where we dined. She sent Jack to open y^ Gates and 
Bars. Got well Home. 

\_August\ 28. Sunday. Read prayers and preached and 
gave notice of y^ Sacrament n"' Sunday. O Domine 
prepara nos. I catechized the negroes and white chil- 
dren. Young Jo: Wh:^* at church. 

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1743 \^y^ugusf\ 29. I drove my wife to Bro' Jn°'', where we 
w-^-^ dined and stay'd till night. He was at Newport. 
There we saw Mr. Willet and got Safe Home. 
\^y4ugusf\ 30. As my men mowed Sedge Island yester- 
day, today their gone to cart y^ Hay and Mr. Rob- 
inson has sent a load of salt Hay in two Carts. Mr. 
Benj" Mumford bro't i qr Lamb, w^''' lb 5. 'Twas 
Town meeting. Rob' Hazard^"* went to Newport after 
my wife gave him j[20, w"^ Thomas Gardiner^'^ in- 
trusted her with. Bro't Home two Load Sedge. 
[y4ugusf\ 3i''' Wednesday. My men are going to help 
Jo: Mumford^'' to cut Corn Stalks. They returned 
ab' y^ midle of Afternoon. . . . 

September V^ Thursday. It rains this morning. 
[September] i^- Friday. Sister Robinson and three 
of her Sons,^^viz. Rob'& Caleb Hazard and Xto- 
pher Robinson dined here. Rob' went to Boston.^^ 
\_September'\ 3'^- Saturday. I took Phisick. Anthony^* 
here at night. 

[^September] 4'^- Sunday. I catechized y^ Negro's, read 
Prayers, preached and administered the Eucharist to 
20 persons besides myself. Bro' Jn°'' wife and Anstis 
& Will Martin'* dined with us. He gave me the list 
of Conanicut people, viz. 434. 

[^September] 5'*"" Monday. I am going to Conanicut. 
May God make our Journey prosperous. We lodged 
at Capt. Pain's.^' We had for Dinner a Breast of y^ 
best Veal I ever saw in y^ Country. We were used 
with great Civility. 

\_September'\ 6'''" Tuesday. We went from Capt. Pain's 
to Martin's, where I preached. After Service and Ser- 
mon my wife went to Newport. Capt. Paine told me 
he delivered my L' to Mr. Arnold,^* who denyed he 
had Spoke to my Disadvantage, but he lyeth. 

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abstract of C>ut ^txWts, 

Lord, lead him out of his vile way [of] Life, make 1743 
him break off his unclean and Incestuous Commerce — ^ — 
with his Bro'' wjidow and hasten his Repentance. I re- 
turned back over the Ferry, called at Bro' Jn°'^ and 
got home at night. 

[^Septemi^er] y'-^- Judge Willet and Bro' Jn° dined with 
me and the first stayed till late in the Afternoon. 
I pray God quicken him up to Baptism. Harry 
Northrup's wife^ came for Phisical Advice.'°° 
\_September'\ S'''' Thursday. I sent Stepney early for his 
mistress. . . . Harry sledded stones this Forenoon. 
\_September~\ 9. Friday. My wife at Home. Mrs. Susy 
Neargrass,'°' y* was but now Ayrault, died in tra- 
vail Wednesday night. 

[September^ lo'*"" Saturday. A great Storm of rain, w"*" 
hindered my going to Col. Updike's on my way to 
Ca[use] of few at church. 

[September^ 1 1'*"- Sunday. Broken of my rest last night. 
Went and officiated at Coeset Ch. and returned 
home the same Day. No Sacrament quia no Elements 
Ca[use] of few at church. 

[September'] 12. Monday. \ havebeenall Day at Home. 
Mrs. Ann Mumford " is here and I am much fatigued. 
[September] 13. Tuesday. I visited Geo. Hazard's wife 
&c. and Bro' Jn°, with w'" I dined. My men have 
been pulling Beans. A Hot Day. 
[September] 14. Wednesday. A ^n^ Morning. Young Jo 
Hammond '°* his wife and Sister Gardiner '°^ dined 
here, and Mr. Paine^' called upon us. My wife is 
gone to Point Judith. 

[September] 1 5. Thursday. Stepney carried my Horse 
and oats to Mrs. Cole's last night. Maroca'°'^ is sick. 
Y" negro's gathering Beans, Harry is gone for his 
mistress to her Sister Robinson's. 

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1743 \_September] 16. Friday. Negro's gathered Beans this 
« — ^-w morning. Tom Walmsley came the midle of the 
Forenoon and they began the wall to the northward 
of the north orchard. 

\_September~\ 1 7"^- Saturday. Walmsley and the negro's 
worked upon said wall. 

\_September~\ i B'*'' Sunday. Read prayers and preached 
upon the subjed: of the Lord's Day at St. Paul's. 
\_September~\ \g^^- Monday. Harry threshed Beans and 
Stepney Corn. Capt. Hill'°^ & wife visited us. 
'[September'] 20'^' Tuesday. It blew hard and cold from 
y^ northwest last night and so it does y' morning. 
Harry winnowed Beans y^ morning and Tom Walms- 
ley and the two negroes are at work on the Stone 
wall. 

Sunday night a young man named Avery & a new 
light '"'^ had a Conversation with me, in w'*" I hope 
I said something y* will do him good. 
[September] 2i"' Wednesday. Cold wind from north and 
north East. Tom Walmsley and my People at work 
on y^ wall to the northward of the north orchard. 
At night Tom went Home and my wife paid him 
^Qshs {-Q^ards his wages for 7^ Days works, viz' 1 
ab't Salt Sedge, 1 ab' y*" Sled and 3^ ab' Said wall. 
[September] ii^- 'Thursday. It rained at the full moon. 
The negro's put y^ wheat straw in y^ Barn loft, 
mended Baskets and worked some on the wall. 
[September] ii^^' Friday. We began to gather Indian 
Corn.'°7 I visited Mrs. Hiir°^ at Rowlands. She is 
better. Capt. Hill went with me to Tower Hill. At 
Case's'"^ I had two news Papers and some Letters, 
[from] a Dr. Astey (?), Mrs. Walker"° & Uncle 
Mumford,'^'* who advises me the Cyder Mill and 
Press is come and cost ^3:10 Freight. I visited Mrs. 

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Hammond'"^ who is sick with an Intermitting Fever 1743 
& Capt. Thomas Hazard's"' wife who is sick Hke- ^— v-^ 
wise. I visited Mr. Jo: JMumford'*^''' and bo't a 
pound of chocolate not yet made up, and got home 
safe, God be praised. Troubled with y^ Head ache 
this afternoon. 

\_September\ 24^' Saturday. My Head ached all night. 
My men stayed out long a husking at Ephraim Gardi- 
ner's House "^ hard by. They are gathering Corn. 
Fine weather and warm these two Days. 
[September] i^^^' Sunday. Catechized the negro's, read 
Prayers, catechized y^ white children, gave notice of 
y" Communion next Sunday and preached the Second 
Part of my Sunday Sermon, as I did the i"' Part the 
Sunday before, from Ads, 20:7. 
[September] iG-^' Monday. This morning Harry bro't 
my Cyder Screws and Mill from y^ Ferry. Benjamin 
Mumford carryed 2 Jugs and 1 2''' to bring me a Gal- 
lon of Rhum from Tower Hill. 
[September] if^- Tuesday. Bro't the timber from .... 

05i [ober] 2"'*" Read Prayers, preached & adminis- 
tered the Eucharist at St. Paul's. 
[O^ober] 3. Got Timber for Press at Mr. Wil- 
let's. Dawley this afternoon. 

[October] 4. Tuesday. Got Home the Timber. Dawley 
here. 

[O^ober] 5. Wednesday. Dawley at work. Went to 
Col. Updike's, in the Evening, in my way to Boston. 
[prober] 6. Thursday. Drove this Day from Updike's 
to Robins's, 51 miles. 

[O^ober] j^^- Friday. Reached Boston by noon. At- 
tended the funeral of Johnny Gibbins. 

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1743 \_0 Golfer'] 8. Wrote letters to England. 

' — ^ — ' [_0^ohr'] g^^- Sunday. Went to church at the Chapel,'" 
but would not preach because of my Eyes. 
[^O^oi^er'] lo'**- Monday. Wrote more Letters. Dined 
with Jemmy Smith. 

\0^ober\ w"^- Doctor Gardiner^' went to Piscata- 
qua"'^ at 2 o clock post meridiem and had Capt. Os- 
born with him, in order to embark on the Gosport, 
man of war. 

\0^ober^ \i. Could not get my horses shod. Dined 
at Mrs. Hutchinson's."* 

\05lober\ 13. A thanksgiving at Boston on acc't of 
the Vidory at Detingen'"^ on y* River Mayne. 
\05loher~\ 14. Friday. Set out in the Afternoon. 
Reached Robbins's. 

\05lober\ i ^'^- Travelled 5 1 miles to Col. Updike's. 
\05lober\ \(i^- Preached at my church and thro' 
God's great Goodness reached Home. 
\05lobef\ ly'*"- I meet with many misfortunes. God 
lessen and sandify them to me. 
\05lober'\ \%^' Tuesday. My men are making stone 
wall and fine weather. Billy Gardiner "Modged [here] 
and Sebastian Kerhaut"^ & his sister. 
[O^ober]^ 1 9'''- Wednesday": Fine weather. After Din- 
ner Mr. Robinson'^ called and asked me to go and 
see his wife at Newport. I paid him j/^30 and £11 
to Bro' Jn°, wh. I borrowed when I went to Boston. 
\0£fober\ id^- Thursday. I went to Newport. Found 
my sister's Breast, I think, not so bad as I expedled. 
If ... , perhaps a Suppuration and Cancer, too, 
may be prevented. Capt. Ailmy is bad and astmatick. 
Mrs. Wilkinson "9 has a bloody Flux, but better. I 
visited Mrs. Coddington.'*° 

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;aftstract of £>ut ^etttccg, 

[O^foberl i\.l prescribed Oxymel Scylliticum'*' as a 1743 
vomit for Capt. Ailmy. Dined with Tom.'" Paid 16''' ^^^ — ■ 
to Stephen Ayrault'*' for Porter casks, ;^3:i2, by the 
Hands of Daniel Ayrault,'°' to his sister Goldin'^"* for 
400 ft. of Board, I had of Mr. Goulding. I stayed all 
the afternoon at Capt. Ellery's "' waiting for the Boat. 
Got to Conanicut in the night, crossed to Sheffield's, 
no Boat. Returned [to] Martin's^^ and sent for Ben- 
jamin Thomas, who, for five shillings, bro't me to 
Bills. '^^ I walked home in the time of Eclipse. 

[05fober~\ 11. Saturday. A great Storm this Day, w'^'' 
began last night of Wind and Rain. Blessed be God, 
who bro't me Home last night safe. 

[prober] 23'*- Sunday. Read Prayers and preached at 
St. Paul's. A cold Day, but no frost after y^ Storm. 

[prober] 24""- Monday. This morning my negro 
woman Maroca was bro't to bed of another Girl. 
Good God do thou dired: me wh' to do with her. I 
am perplexed about her Condudl with Col. Updike's 
negro. She is a Xn, but seems not concerned about 
her soul nor minds her promise of chastity, w''*' she 
has often made me. A fine Day. Took up Turneps 
and some Potatoes. 

[prober] 25*^- Tuesday. Wind at Southwest. A fine 
Day. Negro's Digging Potatoes. 

[05fober^ 26. JVednesday. Sam: Wickham'*^ break- 
fasted here. Negro's digging Potatoes. Maroca better. 
Wind at Southwest. 

[October] if^- It rained last night. Rowland Robinson 
and his wife lodged here. 

At Conanicut once a month all y*" winter of 1743. 

At Mrs. Updike's, N: Town,"^ March 8"* 1743."' 

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1743-4 71//^^^^^ ^°"'" "^^ ^^- Francis's.'* 
^^-Y-^ ^r/ M^r^/^ ii"'- At Coeset. 

[Marc/q 1 8^- At St. Paul's. 
[^Marc/i] 20. Tuesday. At Conanicut. 
[Af(:zrr/z] 23. Good-Friday. A great Snow Storm. 
Read Prayers at Home.'^° 
1744 [Afi^r^y^] 25. Easter Sunday. At Home. 

f/>n7 i^'- Preached at Home. 1744. 

[y/pr//] 3"'- I officiated at Conanicut. 

\_A'prir\ 5. I married Daniel Weir^'' to Phebe 
Mumford.''' 
\Aprir\ 8. Sunday. Preached at Coeset Ch. 

'ay i^'- 1744. I preached at Conanicut. 
2"'*' Sunday in May I preached at Coeset. May 

13- 

Monday. At Warwick. May 14. 

Sunday., May 2o'''" At King's Chappel, Boston. 
Sunday., May 27^' At Coeset, on my Return. 

hine 3"*' Sunday. At St. Paul's. A Funeral Ser- 
mon for Mrs. Anstis Updike.''* 
June 5'''- At Conanicut. Tuesday. 

June lo^'- At St. Paul's. 

June 17*- At St. Paul's. 

June 24'''- St. Jn° Baptist's. At St. Paul's & catechized 

negroes & white children. 

^uly !"• At St. Paul's. Administered Eucharist. 
July S"'- At Coeset. 

July 9^^' At Old Warwick. Administered Eu- 
charist to Mr. Moses Lippet/^ who, a few days be- 

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fore received Clinick Baptism at y^ hands of Mr. 1744 
Checkley.^ ^— v— ' 

Ju/y 1 5"'- At St. Paul's. Baptized two Adults and 3 
children and catechized negro's & white children. 
July Id"- At St. Paul's. 
[July'] 29. At Ditto. 

yfug \ust\ 5'''- 1744. At Ditto. Administered Eu- 
^^/jf charist. 

\_August\ Tuesday^ y^^- At Conanicut. 
[y^ugus/] Sunday y 1 2 . At Coeset & administered Eucha- 
rist to 7 persons. 

[Jugust] Sund: 19. At St, Paul's. Churched Mistress 
Anstis Robinson.^' Catechized negroes and white chil- 
dren. 
\_Augusf\ Sunday y 26. At St. Paul's. 

Cyept \_ember~\ i^- Sunday. At St. Paul's. Adm. Eu- 
1^ charist. Churched Mrs. Mary Gardiner.'^ 

Tuesday y Sept \_ember~\ 4*- Officiated at Conanicut. 
Baptized an Adult viz' William Mott.'^^ Married 
George DunweP^'* to Phebe Tennant.'^^ A Congrega- 
tion of above an 100 in both Rooms. Mr. Honyman" 
of Newport and Mr. Davenport'^^ of Boston both at 
ch. there. 

Sunday y Sept [ember] 9'*'- At Coeset. A large Congre- 
gation. 

Monday y Sept [ember] lo*' I was 51 years old.'^'' I 
preached &c. at Ab. Francis's, in old Warwick, and 
baptized Mary Green, the wife of Jonathan Green, 
Taylor. Her maiden name was Stafford. '^^ Her wit- 
nesses were Mr. Francis & his wife and Miss Molly 
Lippet. And returned to Col. Updike's. 
[September 1 1""] Tuesday. In coming Home, visited y^ 

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1744 widow Thomas, Capt. Cole's^^^ sick wife and Mrs. 
>— ^.^ Cole,''* who has dislocated her Elbow. Y' night Billy 
& Harry Vassal lodged at my House. 

\_September i2^*] Wednesday. Billy Vassal bo't my 
Tropick Bird'^' for £^1^^ sterling. Dr. Hazard and 
Betty Gardiner '*° went to Conanicut to Billy Haz- 
ard's*^ weding. 

[September 13'^] Thursday. They are both gone again 
to Mr. Robinson's ''^^ to the Infair.'** 
Sunday, 16'^ Septl Preached at St. Paul's. 

[September 1Q^'\ Thursday. W"- on the Hill in a great 
passion about my new stone wall by y^ Rock.''^^ My 
People helpt to raise the Bridge.'*^ 

[September 2i^''] Friday. Mr. Cazneau carried away 

the Tropick Bird by Mr. Vassal's order, who, by 

him, sent me Bills for £^'^'1^, sterling.''^^ I wish he may 

prosper with him. In my Study. 

[September 22"''"] Saturday.^\wdi south. Men at work 

on y^ wall. In my Study. Benj. Mumford, Anthony, 

Jn° Goodbody here. My Humbird'**^ came home. 

Sunday^ 23"*" Sept^- Go with me to y"^ House, o Lord, 

open our Hearts and, by thy Spirit, Seal Instruction 

to us. 

Pardon and remove all my unworthiness of every 

sort. 

Monday., n^ Sepf- 1744. Visited Abigail Sampson, 

a sick Mustee.'"^^ She is desirous to be admitted into 

ch. Lord, pardon her sin, give her Faith in X Jesus, 

and, in y^ strength, enable her to resolve upon and 

live a new life. Went and came, through the River,''^^ 

Safe in my Chair.'*^ O God to thee be y^ Praises of 

all my Preservations. 

[September 25^*"] Tuesday. It rains this morning. 

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abstract of £>ut ^tvMitts. 

Wind at so. west. My wife indisposed. ... I doubt 1744 
we shall be disappointed in our visit to Mrs. Ailmy's.*'* — , — - 

\_Sepiember 26^] Wednesday. Visited Mrs. Ailmy's in 
Boston Neck.'^° Afternoon, visited Jeoffrey Watson,'*' 
a sick Person. 

[September i']^-'\ Thursday. Visited Mrs. Cole, whose 
Arm has been dislocated. Heard there that Nath: 
Coddington''* is past Recovery. 

\Septemher aS*''] Friday. Visited Mr. Robinson's sick 
children'" in Point Judith."'* In my Return, paid 
Joseph Mumford's Son Dick'" ^£'13: 17:6, in full of 
all Acd's. 

Saturday Sept [ember^ 2g^^- Paid ofFTho: Peckham's 
Acc't. Studied. It is now certain y' Taylor,'*^ Mr. Cod- 
dington'*'' and Sueton Grant,'*^ three of the four 
Persons, y' were blown up with Gunpowder, are 
dead and y' Mr. Gidley's''^ life is dispaired of. 

Sunday Sept [ember"] 30. Catechized the negroes and 
white children. Read Prayers and preached suitable 
to y^ occasion of the above accident. 
Post Meridiem. Visited [and] pray[ed] with my 
wife's Grandmother'^ and visited Jeoffrey Watson. 



O 



^ober 

Monday S''" i"- Dr. Hazard visited Bill,"^ who 
also sent for me. 

Tuesday 2""* do. I visited Bill. Went to Conanicut, but, 
the people not being warned, I did not preach, but 
proceeded to Newport and attended Mr. John Gidley 's 
funeral, the fourth and last of y^ four Persons blown 
up with Gunpowder. I had a Ring, Scarf and Gloves.'^' 
Mr. Honyman preached his funeral Sermon, I lodged 
at Daniel Ayrault's.'^' 

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:744 [O^ohr'l Wednesday 3"*- Agreed with Capt Dennis '^^ 
— V — ab't Tom Commock's'^'^ share of the Prize, in behalf 

of Tom Walmsley, his Master, for ^19 cash, ^69:9 

in sugar. Gave Mr, William Mumford'^' an order on 

him w'^*' he accepted. 

Supped at Mr. M's andlodged at Capt.Wilkinson's."^ 

[05tober~\ 'Thursday^ ^^^- Was sent for to my wive's 
grandmo''^ funeral,"^'^ who died but y' Day but she 
was buried before I could get there. 
[O^fober^ Friday^ 5*- My wife made a visit of Con- 
dolence to her Mo'- '^^ 

[O^fobef] Saturday, 6'^ At Home. My People all this 
week on stone wall and Tom 4 Days, 
[prober] Sunday, j^^' Read Prayers, preached, admin- 
istered y^ Eucharist. Anstis went y* Day to Westerly 
to be at a Husking instead of the Sacrament, w'''' she 
has not received since she lay in. Lord give her a sight 
of her sin and rouse her up from her sad [ind] iffer- 
ency in Religion. 

[prober] Monday, S'*"' My two negroes digging stones. 
I went to Boston Neck, this afternoon. Long Will's 
wife"^^ dined with us. I gave her a Bible for her Daugh- 
ter Cook. I lodged at Mrs. Ailmy's. 
\_0^ober'] Tuesday, g^^- Preached at Conanicut. My 
Discourse turned chiefly on y" Accident''^ of blowing 
up y' happened to Sueton Grant, Nath' Coddington, 
Jn° Gidley and one Mr. Taylor, y' are all dead. 
[prober] Wednesday, lo^' At Home. 
\0^ober\ Thursday, i\^- At Home. 
\05fober'\ Friday \2^^- At Home. Uncle Mumford 
lodged here last night. It is a rainy Day. Tom has 
worked 4 Days y^ week. 

^O^fober^ Saturday , 13^' Tom & my men upon y® 
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abstract of €)ut ^erUtces. 

Stone wall. I went to Col. Updike's after Dinner and 1744 
lodged all night. ■ — ^— * 

[O^fober] Sunday I4'''- Read Prayers and preached at 
Coeset. Returned in my Chair, drawn by Mrs. Up- 
dike's chaise Horse, old Joe, to y" Col's and n"' morn- 
ing being 

\0^ober\ Monday^ I5'''- in my way Home bo't of 
Xtopher Phillips'''^ one Side of Sole another ditto 
of upper Leather for my negroe's Shoes. Y*'' cost 
me ^3 : 1 6 : & he & I are clear. I called and left 
the leather at Benjamin Mumford's to be made up. 
Tom here y^ afternoon. 

\0^ober\ Tuesday^ 16. Tom & my men at work on 
the wall. 

\0£loher\ Wednesday 17. Ditto on y*" wall. 
\05lober\ 'Thursday 1 8. It is a storm of rain. Wind at 
North west. My wife put her red Durance Petticoat '^° 
in the Frame and Betty '■*° and she is at work thereon 
and Dr. Hazard is reading Physick.'^' 

71 T'ovember 4*''- At St. Paul's. Administered Eu- 
^ \f charist. 

\_November~\ 6"'- I officiated at Conanicut. 
This sent home Nov'- f^- by Mr. Mason. '^^ 
\_November~\ Sunday the ii'*'- At Coeset & adminis- 
tered Eucharist. 

[November] 12. At Old Warwick and returned home 
y' night. 

\_November'] iS'*"- Officiated at Home at St. Paul's. 
Catechized y^ negro's & baptized Abigail Samp- 
son,'''' a Mustee woman of a^' 50 years or more. 
[November] ic^^^- Officiated at St. Paul's and married 
George Read and Eleanor Read'^'^ in the church, — 
a thing too litle {sic) pradiced among us.'^^ 



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1744 'T^ecem' q}- 1744. Sunday. Officiated at St. Paul's. 
"—^ J^ [December] g'^- At £84^*= Martin's on Conan- 
icut. 

[December] 16. At St. Paul's. 

[December] 23. At St. Paul's. 

7*anuary i''] Circumcision. At Home. 
January G^- 1744.'^^ At St. Paul's. 
[January] On Sunday the i^^^ I officiated at 
Conanicut. 

[January] The id^- At St. Paul's. 
[January] The 27*- At St. Paul's. 
Tl But on Sundays the 3*^, i o'\ 1 7'''' and i/^^o^ February 
I officiated at my own House to larger Congregations 
than usually meet at y^ Season at the ch. This oc- 
casioned by a humor y* for sometime has distilled 
into y^ upper lids of my Eyes, and was then so bad 
y' I could not bear the external air. 

J j^sb [ruary] i^^- Rode in company with my wife 
^^ and her niece Elizabeth Gardiner '''^ to Capt. 

Hill's.'"^ Stepney attended us. 
[February] 26''' Rode from H ill's toUncleMumford's 
of Groton."^ 

[February] I'j^^- Ash-Wednesday. Tarried at Mr. 
Mumford's and officiated to a few people there. 
[February] 28'''" Went over to New London where 
I had been often importuned to go and long expected. 

11 /T arch i & i^' At Mr. Mathew {sic) Stewart's '^^ 
J^yj[ of New London. 

[MarcK] 3'*" Being Sunday, read Prayers, 
preached and administered y' Eucharist in St. James's 
ch. in New London. '^^ 



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Here I found fresh Instances of Mr. Morris's^ In- 1744 
gratitude and Indiscretion, who represents me as his ' — y~^ 
Enemy, tho' he would have been ruined if I had not 
befriended him. I wish him well. May God give him 
more Solidity and more Grace and with y' a greater 
Discernment of his own Foibles and of others Pre- 
tences of Friendship to him. 

\_March'] id^^- Officiated again at New London and 
baptized a child by the name of Elizabeth,'^" Daugh- 
ter of Mathew Stewart, born during our Stay in his 
House. 

[March'] 17'^- Officiated at St. Paul's. 
iMarch] 0.4}^- At Ditto. 
[March] 3 1 . At Ditto. i y^r 

yf^ril f^- At St. Paul's & baptized Jn° Wier,'^' "^^^ 
^^^/jf a child. 

[Aprif] \i. Good Friday. At St. Paul's. 
Preached and baptized Robert Dickson, a child. 
[Aprif] \^^- Easter Sunday. At St. Paul's, w'** put 
me out of my ordinary Course of supplying Coeset, 
so y' I did not go there, as usual, on y^ 1^ [Sunday 
in the month,] but officiated at Coeset 
April 2i''- and baptized Samuel King,'^* a child, and 
y^ Day before at Old Warwick, viz. 20* and ap- 
pointed y^ 3^ Sunday for their supply during this 
Summer. 

\_Aprir\ 2i^'" 1745. Inmyreturnfrom Coeset I married 
James Boon'^' to Mary Updike,'^'^ Daughter of 
Richard deceased, at the house of her Uncle, Col. 
Daniel Updike and reached Home late y' night. 
[April] 11^- I rode 5 miles from Home and baptized 
child 7 years old called Christopher Dickinson. '^^ 
April i^'^- Sunday, 1745. Officiated at St. Paul's. 

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1745 ]\ /T ^y ^"'^' ^745' '^^^^.g' Thursday. My first, best 
" — V — ^f/£ and most principal Servant was drowned out 
of the Skow, w^*" sunk and Stepney '^'^ could 
not swim, but Harry, who could escaped. 
\_May~\ 3'*- We found his Body and y' Afternoon rode 
5 miles and administered Clinick Baptism to Ed"*^ 
Sherman. '^^ 

\_May~\ 4^' I preached his Funeral Sermon to a great 
Assembly of negro's in the ch. & interred him in 
y^ ch. yard. 

\_May'] f"- Sunday. Officiated at St. Paul's. 
[Mrv] f^- At Conanicut. 
May iq}^- Sunday. Officiated at St. Paul's &c. 
May \G^- Rode 30 miles up into y^ wilderness '^^ and 
lodged at Samuel Cooper's. '^^ 

\_May~\ ly**"' Preached at said Cooper's, receiving one 
child '^° into y^ Congregation, formerly baptized by 
Mr. Pigot,'^' and baptized another,'^* both y^ children 
of one Howard, an Englishman. 
Dined with Major Browne, an Anabaptist, who, be- 
ing at ch., invited me, and from there, in the After- 
j noon, rode 14 miles to Xtopher Lippet's,''^ who lives 
''' well and kind[ly] entertained my Companion, Benj" 
Mumford, and myself 

\_May'\ 1 8*' Rode 12 miles from Mr. Xtopher Lip- 
pet's at Mr. Francis's of Old Warwick in y^ Rain, as 
we had done all day to Cooper's on y^ i6'''" It was 
Quaker General Meetingj'^"* so I did not preach at 
Francis's as usual. 

\_May~\ Sunday, iff"' Officiated at Coeset ch. Few 
people. They are all gone to y^ Frolick of y^ general 
Meeting at Greenwich. I reached Home, without eat- 
ing or drinking, before sun set. 
12 miles y' Day. 



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\^May~\ lo''^- I reposed myself at Home. We had a 1745 
visit from Misses Betty Cole '^^ and Betty Mumford,'^^ ^-^w 
y'' latter, Mr. Honyman's Grandaughter {sic). 
Mr. Whitefield'^'' has been one Sunday at Providence 
and two at Newport. Small numbers attend him now 
to w' did some years ago.'^^ There is a change some- 
where, in him or them. 

May i\. Tom Walmsley is here to help Harry to 
Hough,and Mrs. Hatch '^^ to mend my Cassock. I am 
now about sitting down to study. Lord God dired: 
me to a suitable subjed and enable me to write upon 
it to the Purpose of Edification. 

May 11^ 1745- My wife and I have been married 
this Day 23 years.^°° For y'' great Goodness to us, all 
this time, Lord make us truly and fruitfully thank- 
ful and give us y^ Presence and Blessing in all times 
to come. 

My Spouse's head aches. Tom and Harry howing 
and picking Peas. A Messenger came for me to at- 
tend Edward Sherman's FuneraP^^ tomorrow. He 
dyed this morning. Yesterday poor Mary Willet^°' 
visited here, in company with her niece, Mrs. Gardi- 
ner,^"* and, in the Evening, her Husband, Br° Jn°' 

May iif"- I preached a Funeral sermon at William 
Sherman's, in N. Kingstown, and buried his Son 
Edward, who dyed of a Decay and to wh"" I admin- 
istered clinick Baptism on the j'' Day of this May. 
Upon my Return Home I found at my House Br°" 
Jn°'' wife, his Daughter, Anstis Robinson, Mistress 
Holmes*°' and Mrs. Eliot,*°+ to whom soon came 
Roland Robinson, Capt. Holmes*°' and Tho- Gar- 
diner to carry y"" to Boston Neck. Mrs. Eliot told 
me Mr. Whitefield was gone from Newport and 
waited on Mr. H n,*°' the Saturday before he 

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1 745 w^^^> ^° ^^^ ^^^ Pulpit but was refused. Mr. Bourse*'^ 
«— V — ' can tell me what passed between y"". Bennet*°^ came 
to see y^ Chaise and says he will come tomorrow to 
put a new Fellow in the wheel. 
May 24"'' Harry is gone this morning for Molasses, 
but stays long. Stepney, poor Boy, is dead and I have 
no Servant I can now so well depend upon to go and 
come quick and [do] his errands well. 
\May\ if"- Bennet put a Fellow in the wheel, and 
Harry carryed the Chaise to Mr. Duglass's.*°^ 
\_May\ 26. Sunday. It rained, but I went to ch. in 
y' chair, Harry and y^ young Horse. I preached to 
ab' 30 People. 

\May'\ i']'^- Monday. Harry hoed Potatoes and, in 
the Evening, bro't Home the chaise. It rained, so 
y* Jn° Gardiner did not sheer. Jn° Goodbody*^' here. 
[May'] 28. Tuesday. Br° Jn° sheered.'°9 My [wife] 
went in the chaise, with litle [sic] Nab Gardiner*'" and 
Bolico.*" Jn° Goodbody followed. They bro't the 50 
lbs. wool, I bo't of Jn° in winter. All this Day in 
my Study. 

[May~\ 29. Wednesday. Jn° Goodbody took Phisick 
again. 

[^Mayl 30. Thursday. My wife, Jn" Goodbody & 
litle Abigail Gardiner went to sheering at Rowland's. 
Bro't home 1 2 lbs. wool Anstis owed her for work. 
Capt. Sweet"* came and I wrote his will, w'''' was 
witnessed by Jeffry Watson, Tho- Peckham and 
myself. After they went, JefFry and I had some talk 
of the Anabaptists. I pray God that he may be in 
earnest about Religion and y' w' I said may be blessed 
for his Instrudion & persuasion. Benj" Mumford 
dined with me and acquainted me y^ Caesar, the Ne- 
gro, has preached, for two Sundays past to the Qua- 

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kers, at their Meeting house in South Kingstowne. 174c 

Deputy Gov' Robinson*'' present. — , — ' 
[Af^jy] 31. Friday. Jn° Goodbody took Phisick. It 
rained. 

7une i"- 1745. Saturday. A clear Day, Wind at 
North. Harry has been this 4 Days carting 
wood out of Mrs. Cole's^* Farm to y" upward 
Pond.*''* Grant, Good Lord, I may have better For- 
tune in boating y^ wood than the last, in the last 
Boatload whereof I lost my dear Servant Stepney. 
Harry is come home about two o'clock, has carted 
1 6 Load, saw a Bear,*'^ last night in Mrs. Cole's Farm, 
& has bro't home Pea Sticks. We expedt Mrs. Ailmy. 
May God shower down upon us his Holy Spirit to- 
morrow, being Whit Sunday, as he did on his Ser- 
vants at Pentecost, and may the Eucharist convey to 
us in a sensible manner, if it be thy will, thy Grace 
and Holy Spirit. Amen, Amen, Lord Jesus. 
Received a letter on Thursday from Dr. Gardiner, 
on Friday from Samuel Mason dated in London 
March i S^''-, in Capt. Adams, {sic) 
Give us, if it be y'' blessed will, victory over our 
French Enemies at Cape Breton*'^ &c. 
June q}- Sunday. Officiated at St. Paul's, administered 
the Eucharist to 22 inclusive, being Whit Sunday. 
June 3'*- A verry Hott Day. Harry hoeing at B — 
neck.*'^ I wrote to Mr. Vassal. 

June 4^- This morning I am going to preach at Co- 
nanicut. Lord God, prosper y'' work in my Hands, I 
beseech thee, increase y" Prosped:. 
I preached at Conanicut y' Day to a small Congrega- 
tion, about 1 5, and had a tedious calm Passage Home. 

June 5^- A Northerly Breeze this Forenoon. Maroca 

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174c carried a Calf Skin to Paul Woodbridge*'* & went 
V— >^— ^ upon Tower Hill. Jn° Goodbody here taking Physick 
and picking wool. 

June 9'''- 1745. Mr. Lyons *'^ preached for me & 
\_JuHe] lo'*"' my wife & Lyons is gone to visit at Will 
Brown's."° 

[^June] 1 1'''- Tuesday. Went in Company with y^ Rev'' 
Messrs. Lyons and Gibbs/° (the last of w'^'' arrived 
from Symsbury,"' via New London, last night,) to 
Newport and lodged at Capt. Wilkinson's. 
June I2"'- 1745. Convention at Newport. Mr. Henry 
Caner"^ preached before the Clergy, viz. the Com- 
missary,^ Dr. MacSparran, Mr. Honyman," Mr. 
Millar,"^ Mr.Usher,"^ Mr. Punderson,"^ Mr. Check- 
ley ,^ Mr. Lyons,''9 Mr. Thompson,"^ Mr. Gibbs^ 
and Mr. Beach."^ 

I am sorry to see y' the Party Spirit prevails, & y* 
Mr. Honyman" is so silly as to join the New Eng- 
land"^ men, in their selfish Schemes. I observe they 
are driving at the Destrudion of the Glebe Scheme, 
but hope the Society will see the good EfFed: of it 
and insist upon it. 

June ij'*"- The Clergy, all but Mr. Checkley, who 
went home, dined at Capt. Jn° Brown's."^ I visited 
^ Mr. Bourse,*"^ in Company with Beach, Lyons and 
Gibbs. 

June i/\}^- Dined at Mrs. Mumford's, upon the 
Hill,*'° in Company with all Mrs. Cole's^* children. 
My God extricate Jn° Cole *'' out of the Difficul- 
ties, he has involved himself in. Calm his Passions 
and prevent his ruining himself and grieving his 
Mo'. I came home y' Afternoon. 
June I ^^^- Mr. Punderson and his wife dined at my 
House, as they drank Tea there on the lo'*"' He is 

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to preach at Westerly*'* tomorrow. Mr. Lyons and 1-74^ 

Gibbs came before y^ went off. — , — ' 
June i6'''- Mr. Lyons preached for me at St. Paul's 
and Mr. Gibbs at Coeset, and y^ next day I hope will 
do so at Old Warwick. 

June ly^*"- After Dinner Mr. Lyons visited at Mr. 
Brown's."° Miss Browne says she intends never to 
marry. 

June iS**' Mr. Lyons here writing Letters. 

June 19*- Mr. Lyons still here writing. 

June 20'''- Mr. Lyons took his Leave, called at 
Brown's. The same Tune,*" as he tells me in his 
Letter from Case's.*''* 

June 2i^'" Friday. Our People busy in making Hay. 

June 11^- Saturday. Tom and Harry put the Hay in 
y^ Barn. Tom has been here about 5 Days y^ week. 
I payed him ^^8 Bill & gave him some Turnips. 

June ii^^- Sunday. Catechized y"" Negro's & white 
children, read Prayers and preached at St. Paul's. 
My wife sick and not at church. Br° Jn° and his 
wife and Daughter Ab: dined here, as did Sebastian 
Carhort, Stewart's man, in his way to Boston. I sent 
Lyons' L" and one of my own to Dr. Gardiner. 

June 1^^- My oxen went to George Hazard's in the 
Neck. Harry began to hill Corn. Thunder and a little 
Rain in y^ night. 

June 1^^^- Harry hilling Corn. I bled George Fow- 
ler *'*'■* and [gave] Maroca one or two Lashes for 
receiving Presents from Mingo. I think it was my 
Duty to corred: her, and w'ever Passion passed be- 
tween my wife and me on y' occasion. Good L'' for- 
give it. 

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ijAC I bo't 13 lbs. veal of Jn° Browne, 9''' per lb., losh. 

*— V — ■ June 26^' It rained hard last night, is a foggy morn- 
ing, but seems [as] if it would clear up. Bro' Jn°' wife 
sent us a Loin of veal. Harry is a hilling. Clear y^ 
Afternoon. Wind at South West. All my Negro's 
dined upon green Peas. 

June 2j^^' Harry hilling Corn. Jn° Goodbody came 
here the night before. I was angry with Harry. Misses 
Betty Cole'95 ^ Mumford,''^ W"- Sherman's wife & 
Daughter '^^ dined here on green Pease. 
June iS^- Friday. Harry went to hill Corn in the 
Neck. I carryd my wife to Br° Jn°' in the Chaise. 
She carried green Peas for her Mo', not y" come. 
Gave some to Phebe Weir and 4sh. to Daniel for 
weaving her Mo'" Linnen. It came up Rain from 
y^ North West and continued more than a hour 
from Sunset. 

June i^^'^- Saturday. In y^ Neck hilling. Alice Gardi- 
ner*^' dined with us. It has rained a good many 
showers from y^ North y^ Day. My wife in better 
Health. L^ prepare us for sandifying y^ holy Day 
tomorrow and go with us to y^ House & make us 
more than ever sensible of & thankful for y'' Good- 
ness. 

30 June, 1745. Read Prayers & preached at St. 
Paul's. Mistress Ailmy dined with us. 

f^^uly !*'• 1745. Monday. As we were preparing to 
/go to Mrs. Cole's, my niece Anstis came and 
*>/ we stayed and dined at Home. She complained 
of bad usage from her next neighbour on y^ north 
side. God Almighty give him a due Sight of and Com- 
pund:ion for all his sins, his Ad:*'^ and Falseness of 
Heart in a particular manner, and prevent his talk- 

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ing Tongue's doing Mischief. Convert and bring him 1745 
back to y*" ch., if it be his blessed will. After dinner — , — ■ 
we went to Mrs. Cole's. 

July 2^- Lodged at Mrs. Cole's. I rode one of her 
Mares to Bissel's.^^'' He is in my Debt notwithstand- 
ing his muttering and whispering about y' I was in 
his. I dined with him and then went to visit Mistress 
Essex/'^ who had lately a Shock with an Apopleftick 
Fit. I fear they are poor, and Ev. went from thence to 
Esq'" Ephraim Gardiner's^'' and left 30 sh. with him 
to give them, and returned to and lodged at Mrs. 
Cole's. 

July 2^' JVednesday. Dined at Mrs. Cole's, came home 
in the Afternoon & found Thomas Walmsley here a 
mowing. 

July the 4^' Tom Walmsley here again today. It is 
now about i and has set in for a heavy North East 
Rain. The 3 Companys of Land Forces sailed from 
Newport on Tuesday for Lewisbourg,*"*" besieged by 
the English. Good Lord preserve and prosper, in all 
Respects, Lieut. Edward Cole,*'^' the young [man] 
belonging to my ch. Grant him Favour in thy Sight 
and in the Sight of the Superior officers, especially 
Commodore Warren,^"^ to whose Favour I have pre- 
sumed to recommend him. I am now about writing 
to England. Good Lord grant y' no ill use shall be 
made of the Truths I shall write. Suggest proper 
tho'ts and Expressions. This Account transmitted by 
letters of the /^^- of July 1745. 

July 4*- 1745. In the Afternoon of this Day, about 
6 of y" Clock, we have heard, at the least, 1 50 great 
Guns from Newport, w'^'' I imagine, by their manner, 
to be Guns of Rejoicing and hope y' news of the 
taking Lewis bourg,*"^' alias Cape Breton, is arrived, 

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I yj. f from whence arises this Smoaky, noisy Joy. May God, 
• — ,— ' in whose hands our Hearts are and has y^ Superin- 
tendence over our Passions, make us joyful in a Ch'n 
manner and to manifest the same by Behaving suitable 
to all our Blessings. Let not the People's Joy throw 
y"" into fresh Provocations, by Sinful Excesses, w'''' 
they too commonly do. Samuel Browne**^^ visited me 
this Afternoon and we have had a blessed Rain. Tom 
Walmsley half a Day. My L'' to the Society, originals 
and Duplicates No. 1:2, to Dr. Bearcroft^-*Mitto, to 
the Archbishop Ditto, to Mr. Sandford Ditto, dated 
this 4'''' of July 1745. Lewisbourg taken. May God 
countenance my writings and all my other Proceedings. 
July i^^- Fair weather and cool all Day. Tom & Harry 
mowing on the Hill. Bentley^'*^ his wife, Benjamin 
Mumford,"'^'*^ (who p'' me 50 sh. Contribution & had 
orders to give my Ac'^ Credit for 30 shillings I gave 
Mistress Essex, and he to take said sum out of offer- 
ings in his hand,) and Anstis all visited here this After- 
noon & Mrs. Ailmy was here also. 
July G^- Mrs. Ailmy staid all night. Tom, Harry and 
Emblo raking Hay. Finished writing to Mr. Randal 
& others. 

July 7. Sunday. Officiated and administered the Eu- 
charist at St. Paul's. Gave my English Letters to 
Mr. Cole*'*^ to carry to Boston. He promised to 
come to my House for more; as he does not go away 
till Wednesday. Mrs. Gardiner*'*^ dined and left her 
Daughter Aby here & Mrs. Ailmy who staid here 
the night before went Home with her. 
July %^^- Wrote letters to Commodore Warren, as I 
had done to y^ Archb^' on y^ same subjed: before.**° 
Lord raise up Friends in this ma% if it be y'' will I 
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turn out to my Dishonour or Disadvantage. Joseph ijac 
Northrup/^' Taylor, at work here and Tom Walms- • — ^.w 
ley stacking Hay &c. 

July 9""- Tuesday. Harry mowing, but did not finish 
on the Hill as I expeded. My [wife] went on a visit 
to her Niece Anstis Robinson and carried Penelope 
Dyer in her chaise and Miss Pine rode on Horse- 
back. Jo Northrup's Mare, y' swam over to Jn° 
Smith's Farm,*^^ was found by him y' Evening. Lord 
I thank thee for y^ Goodness of this Day. My wife 
complainedofthewantof MannersinKit [M?] ''Argil, 
who rode out of the way rather than let down Jn° Smith's 
Barrs; but Penelope Dyer, by laying a Pole across Jn° 
Smith's gate made it nec"^ for him to get down. 

July lo^" tVednesday. I dreamed*" last nighty' a Boat 
overset with me and was refused Help from y^ Shore. 
Good Lord grant y' it may portend no Evil to me, 
especially y* it may not forebode the Refusal of the 
Salt water Interest*''^ I have been longing for. But as 
I went thro' water first, and did not feel my Feet wet 
or cold and waked floating, I hope there is no great 
evil final Consequence to be feared from it. Jo: 
Northrup and his Boy here to Day, as they were 
yesterday. 

July ii''^- Thursday. Mr. Peebles, Mr. Benj" Mum- 
ford & Daniel Wier here to Day. Jo Northrup fin- 
ished my two Jackets & 1 p'' Breech's. I paid j£i:iy 
for his work. Went on a visit to Br° Jn°', where we 
found Aunt Sherman,^ Aunt Kynion*" and uncle 
Henry's wife. Mrs. Ailmy gave me ^3. It has been 
an exceeding hot Day. My wife, Litle Nabby and 
I got safe home in the chaise, blessed be God. 
July 12. Friday morning. I got up before Sunrise. 
Litle wind at South. I dreamed last night I saw Dr. 



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1745 Gardiner coming in a chaise. I was going to condud 
' — , — ' him to my House, but a great Deal of water stopt 
us. Good Lord avert Troubles if y' be signified by 
water of w"^ I have now dreamed twice as I do often. 
Jn° Cole's Boy carryed the Commodore's Letters un- 
der Mr. Apthorp's Cover. ^^^' '^-^ Prosper me, o Lord, 
in this thing, if it be y^ will.*^° My wife is going to walk 
to Ben Mumford's. 

Mr. Mumfordbro'tmy wife Home not well. Capt. Hill 
and his wife & Anstis visited here y' Afternoon. 
Capt. Hill tells me the agreeable news of the Assem- 
bly's allowing King George Ninigret*" to give 20 
Acres more for a Glebe, as an addition to y" 20 his 
Bro' gave and he has given it out of Clark's Farm. 
It is worth 20 JC per Acre. I have promised to get 
the Society's Draught, to draw a Deed by. 
July 13"'- Necessity obliged me*^^ to pitch Hay y' 
Forenoon. We topt and finished 3 Stacks, Col. Up- 
dike, Mrs. Ailmy and her sister Kynion dined with 
us, and the Col. drew an Adt of Assembly, to exempt 
the Clergy from Rates,*^^ w"*" they are to pray for. 
July \^^- Sunday. OfHciated at St. Paul's. A very hot 
Day. This evening it thundered and lightened and 
we had a plentiful and blessed Rain. Rain down the 
Influences of y^ Spirit upon my Soul, o Lord &c. 
Capt. Hiir°5 his wife, Anstis & Roland^' dined with 
[us] after ch. & Mr. Updike*'' Jr. has carry** my Dr. 
for y-^ Deed.^^7 

July 15. Monday, 16. 'Tuesday, 17. Wednesday, 18. 
Thursday. Mowing and making Hay. We finished 
mowing this i S'*" Day. I have been to see Anstis, who 
is sick, and my wife, upon my Return, went thither to 
stay all night. 
July I9'''" Friday. My wife not come Home. Fine 

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Hay-weather. Strong wind all Day yesterday and y' ijac 
morning from y^ Southwest & blows strong. Rowland w-^.^ 
bro't Home my wife. Anstis better. He bo't 12 lbs. 
Sugar, @ 2:8 pr lb.*' We finished stacking our Hay. 
It thunders and looks like Rain this Evening. Lord 
prosper my Journey*'^ tomorrow and prepare Mrs. 
Essex*'^ &c. for the Holy Sacrament. 

July 2o"'- Saturday. Thunder & Lightning & Rain last 
night. I am going to Coeset. Go with me, my God. 
Administered y^ Eucharist to Mrs. Essex, a Clinick, 
and Mrs. Bently*+^and MollySmith.A thunder storm 
while I was there. I went and lodged at Col. Updike's. '° 
July 2i''- Sunday. Officiated at Coeset ch. and ad- 
ministered the Sacra't and went to Mr. Francis's'* of 
Warwick. 

July 11^- Last night, being surfeited with the Heat 
the preceding Days, was taken with a severe vomit- 
ing. Towards Day it ceased. I preached to a small 
Congregation and, the night following, was seized 
with as severe a Purging, w"'' has much reduced me. 

July ij"*- Tuesday. All Day at Mr. Francis's, not 
being able to proceed to Providence, as I intended. 
Sent Abraham for Mr. Checkley,^ but he could not 
come. Jn° Cole^' & Lodowick Updike*^ called to 
see me in their way from Boston. They acquainted 
my wife, at Mr. Updike's where she was on a visit, 
with my Illness and she and Molly Browne"°'*" 
came to me y' night and found me better. 

July i/i^- Wednesday. This afternoon got to Col. Up- 
dike's '° very weak and feeble. 

July if"- Thursday. Got Home and Molly Browne 
went home in the afternoon, after eating some green 
Corn. 

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745 7^^y 26. Rowland Robinson^' & his wife and Molly 
-^ — ' Bissel/^7 QqI Updike his wife and mo' in Law, Mrs. 

Godfrey/'' Molly Updike/' litle Molly Wanton/^ 

Betty Cole '55 and Betty Mumford'^^ and Lodowick, 

with Mrs. Ailmy '-^and Br^Jn^'^'^wife all here together. 

So much Company fatigues me at one time.**^^ 

Jn/y if^- Saturday. At Home. 

July 28^- Sunday. Officiated at St. Paul's. 

July 2^^^- At Home. 

July 30^- Wrote Mr. Lyons/'^ Capt. Hill'"^ &c. 

July 31''- Wednesday. I dined with Anstis^' whither I 

and my wife went on a visit. 

yfug\usi\ i''- Thursday. At Home. 
YM \Augusi\ 1^- Friday. At Home, and so also 
the 3"'' viz' Saturday. Very great Drowth. 

Aug\usi\ 4^" Sunday. We are going to ch. O Lord, 
give us thy Presence to go along with us and bless all 
y'' People, y' worship thee y' Day in publick, and for- 
give those y' are wilfully absent and pity those that 
are necessarily so. 

August f"- I went to Br° Jn°'' & lodged there all 
night. 

August 6'''" I preached at Conanicut and from there 
went to Newport where I stayed till Friday morn- 
ing. Mr. Honyman,'^ by a Fall from his Horse was 
disabled from officiating at all the last Sunday in 
July and could only read Prayers the first Sunday in 
August. But all his People, roundly and without ex- 
ception, went to y^ several meetings. His strange 
Conduct has given his People inconsistent Princi- 
ples, and lessened y' Reverence, they were noted for, 
to y*" Clergy. 

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August (f"- Friday. Came Home from Newport. Col. 174c 
Updike '° and his wife has lodged here 4 Nights, being > — , — - 
Court time.^^ 

August id^' Saturday. Harry drove my wife and me 
to Mrs. Cole's,^* in Company with Mrs. Updike/^' 
where we dined and returned home at night. 

Aug" II*''' Mr. Francis'"* came on Friday. Stayed 
till Sunday. I officiated at St. Paul's and catechized 
the white children & expounded to y""" 

Aug" iq}^- Monday. Anstis*' is here. I am prepar- 
ing for Charlestown to execute Ninigret's Deed*^'* of 
the Glebe Land. Lord, prosper my Journey. 

Aug. 12,^- I arrived at Col. Champlin's,*^* last night, 
and preached at his House y' Day. I find Col. Stan- 
ton^^^ puts remoras^^"^ in the way and alledges he must 
confer with Ninigret's Trustees before he can pitch 
on the Spot where the last 20 acres is to be. 

Aug"- I4'''' I came from Col. Champlin's to Capt. 
Hill's'"' last [night] and got Home y' Day in y^ 
Afternoon, much fatigued and my Eyes very sore. 
I heard on Tower Hill that Capt. Dick Mumford*^* 
had sent for his winter cloathes to Cape Breton.*'^ I 
hope to have good news from Ned Cole.**' 

Au^* I5'''- Jn° Cole^' sent me word last night he 
would come and breakfast here, but he is so mindless 
of his Promises y' I did not expedt him, and I find 
I was not mistaken. I pray God to succeed the Ap- 
plication I have made to y*" Commodore*"**' *'° &c. 
Jn° Cole here, has read us two letters from his Bro' 
Ned. I am glad to hear he is well and hope Jn° will 
succeed in his voyage thither. 

Aug" iG^- Bro' Jn°'' mowed my Rye. Tom Walms- 
ley^9 cut and topt my stacks with Emblo's Assistance 

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1JA.C and Harry harrowed. My wife is meditating a Pre- 

w.^— ' sent to ye C re/*^^ w'^*' pray may be acceptable. 

y^ug^^ 17^" I have Harry still harrowing and Tom 
Walmsley at work too. It rained all y^ Afternoon, 
w""*" hindered my going part of the way to Coeset. 
Mrs. Ailmy** here. 

y^ug^'- 18. Sunday. It is a great Rain, so y* I cannot 
go to Coeset and, if I did, no one would attend there. 
Mrs. Ailmy is here and stays all night. 
Jug'' I9"'- Monday. Rode Rowland's^' Horse to Mrs. 
Cole's.'^* I bo't an old cheese to send to y^ Commo- 
dore, @ 1 "*'■ per lb. I dined there. Jn° came home 
from Providence. Says he will go to Cape Breton. 
Aug^"- io^' "Tuesday. Emblo and I went to Sam' 
Browne's*'^ and filled a Barrel with Aples. Abigail 
Robinson'^ went over to Boston Neck and staid a 
few hours. Mr. Stewart ^^ from New London dined 
with us. 

Aug^"- 21. Wednesday. Sam' Browne headed the Casks 
and nailed the Box for the Commodore. Contents,*'^ 6 
Hams, some Beets, an old cheese and a Barril of 
Apples, and Harry carted them to the Ferry. 
Aug""' 11. Thursday. I and Harry went to Town*^° 
and carry the Barrils &c. 

Aug'''' 23*^' Friday. Mr. Mumford^' put y" on Board 
Vernon's*'" vessels and, y' Evening, at Capt. Wilkin- 
son's,"9 alt'*^'' my L' to y" Commodore, as Jn° Cole^' 
does not go. 

Aug^' i^"^- Saturday. Bo't a Barril of Flower, w^*"- i"= 
3'" 5.® £3 P^ ct., £S'-S'^'' and got Home in y^^ 
Evening. Laus Deo. 

Aug''- ic^'^- Sunday. Officiated at St. Paul's. Mrs. Gid- 
ley'7' and Sally Freebody"^' at ch. Mrs. Ailmy, An- 
stis,*' Stewart & Billv Gardiner"^ dined with us. 

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\_Augusf\ 16^^' Monday. My wife staid at Home wait- inAc 
ing for those visitors, but y''^ did not come. ^-^-^ 

\Augusf\ ay'*'' My wife carryed her Mo'*^ in her chaise 
to dine at Mrs. Cole's and to proceed, in the After- 
noon, to Uncle Ephraim's.*'' Anstis stayed with me 
all Day till her Husband came for her from y^ Towne 
Meeting. 

\_August] 28"'- Wednesday. I sent for Hatch, '^9 f 
Morning, to shoot Geese y^ got into my Corn Field. 
He breakfasted with me. It looks like rain. May 
God send it in Plenty to refresh y^ parched Earth. 
My wife, thro' God'sGoodness returnedsafe. Harry*^ 
finished pulling the Corn Stalks and Nep Dyre*^* 
came in y^ Evening. 

\_Augusi\ 29^- Thursday. Still dry weather. I walked 
up the Hill and down again with my wife. Rob' 
Browne *^^ to be married, (y^^ say,) this Day to Frank- 
lin's Daughter. Nep Dyre and her Daughter Hannah 
dined here. I have finished my Sermon and I pray 
God it may be a means of impressing my People 
with a due sense of Divine Providence, as y' will help 
y" live well. Harry and Moll gathering Beans. High 
wind and scud from y^ Southwest. 
\_Augusi\ 30. Friday. It rained last night. Mrs. Ail- 
my^"^ and Penelope Gardiner *^^ came here in my chaise 
and Dorcas *^^ and Mrs. Easton^^^ on Horse back. 
Wrote a letter for Mrs. Dyre to her Husband. An- 
stis & Molly Browne."°'*" 

\_August\ 3 1 . Saturday. My wife to Anstis's to gather 
Hops. Jn° Gardiner '^ bro't 11 chickens, for w"*" pd. 
20 sh. Daniel Wier^^ carried away the flannel chair. I 
finished another Sermon on Providence. L** God pre- 
pare me and Thine for the service of the Sanctuary 
to Morrow. A windy morning. Wind at South. 

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1745 C^iepir. i''- 1745. Sunday. Read Prayers, preached 
' — * — ' O ^^^ administered y^ Eucharist at St. Paul's. 
Mrs. Ailmy and Bro' Jn° dined with us. It 
rained, they say, last night. Lord refresh our Souls 
as thou refreshest the Earth and let not our Souls be 
so barren, and our Land will be also more fruitful. 
[September] i^- Monday. I went and lodged at Mrs. 
Ailmy's. 

[September] 3. From Boston Neck I went and offi- 
ciated at Conanicut and returned y^ same Day. 
[September] 4. Wednesday. At Home. 
[September] 5. 'Thursday. Ephraim"* got the Plank 
for y^ Cyder Mill sawed. 

[September] 6. Friday. Ephraim cut the Logs and 
Harry carted all Home. Eph: and his two Boys at 
work. 

[September] 7. Saturday. Ephraim and two Boys at 
work. 

[September] 8. Sunday. I officiated at St. Paul's. Cate- 
chized y^ negro's & white children. 
9^*" Sept- Monday. Gave Bond to Jn° Goodbody.*''^ 
Ephraim and Harry at work. Capt. Morris, White*^° 
&c. here on a visit. Mrs. Ailmy""* here. 
[September] lo*" 'Tuesday. Ephraim and his Boy 
Harry here. My Harry bro't yi side sole Leather 
from Clark's.^^' Mrs. Ailmy has been here all Day, 
went Home at night. Dry weather still. 
[September] ii^''" Wednesday. I will try to see Mrs. 
Cole^* who is sick. Eph: & 1 Boys here to Day. 
[September] 12. 'Thursday. Eph. & Hen & Sylv' here. 
A hot Day. 

[September] 13. Friday. Pd. Ephraim ^9 and I am to 
pay Capt. Cole*** I4'''' for y^ Plank. That same Day 

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got [to] Warwick. My wife sick y^ night. Abraham ij ac 
Francis''^ at Newport. —-v^ 

\_September\ 14^" Saturday. I read Prayers & preached 
at Ab: Francis's. After dinner visited Jeremiah Lip- 
pet*^' and his Mo' in Law Howland.^*-^ Both sick of 
a bloody Flux and y" old Mr. Lippet.*^^ 

\_September\ 1 5*" Sunday. Read Prayers and preached 
at y^ ch. in Coeset and, after Service, my wife and I 
got Home. 

\_Sepiember~\ i6"'" Monday. At Home to Day. Harry 
finished cribbing y^ Corn of y^ old Ground. Put my 
Cows into the meadow. 

[September] ly'*"- Tuesday. It drizled a little y^ morn- 
ing, but clears up again notwithstanding the North 
East wind and other Appearances we have had for 
Rain ever since Saturday. Goddard's Son Ebenezer 
came y^ morning to caulk the Scow & expedis his 
Fa'. Goddard came for Afternoon. Tom at work part 
of y' Day. 

[September] i S'*'' Wednesday. Goddard and Son at work. 
At night Mrs. Punderson"^ and her Son came and 
lodged here. 

[September] 1 9'''- 'Thursday. Goddard & Son Ebenezer 
& Tom Walmsley.^9 1 sent /8 to Duglass'°^ per Tom 
on Tuesday. I have been to visit Moses Slocum.*^*^ 
Mrs. Punderson and her Son gone Home. 

[September] 10. Friday. Goddard & his Son here. 
WiUiam Anderson, Son of Tho- Anderson, my 
Uncle's Tennant**^ formerly in Bally ness,*^^ in Ire- 
land, came here. 

[September] 21. Saturday. Goddard done. William 
Anderson here. 

[September] 12. Sunday. I officiated at Narragansett. 
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174c William Anderson at c\ Mrs. Ailmy^'* and Anstis^' 
w.^.^ dined with me. 

\_September'\ 23. Monday. William Anderson went to 

Newport. Tom and Harry bro't i boat load of wood 

and gathered the Corn. 

\_September\ 24. Tom and Harry bro't wood and 

made the Rye field Fence. 

\_September'\ 25. Wednesday. Tom here scowing 3 Load 

wood. 

[September] 16. Thursday. It rained. 

[September] 2J^' Friday. Harry went and bro't Home 

the Scow loaded. Jn° Janis's Son helped him & I 

gave him 16''. 

[Sep/ember] 28. Saturday. Harry carted the Hhds. 

and then he and Emblo bro't y^ Corn and stalks 

from Boston Neck. 

[September] 29^' Sunday. The Feast of St. Michael. 

1 officiated at St. Paul's. Mrs. Ailmy and Anstis 
dined here. 

[September] 30. Monday. I heard Joseph Hull/^^ the 
Quaker, preach, as, alas, it is called, at the Funeral 
of great William Gardiner's^^° only Daughter, De- 
sire, who died y^ Friday before. Mrs. Ailmy, Mr. 
Benjamin Mumford's" wife. Miss Browne"° and 
Miss Ruth Browne"° dined here. 

October i^'' Tuesday. I officiated at Conanicut and 
this night have writ a Certificate of Abraham 
Dennis's Marriage.*^' Sam' Mumford^^* has 
been at work 5 Days, and this Day paid Clark,*^' for 
Leather, ^4:10 and Jn° Browne,"^ for 5 Hhds. and 

2 Barrils ^TS. 

O^*"- G^- 1745. Sunday. I officiated at St. Paul's. All 
y' week making Cyder. My wife not well. 

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O^[ober] 1 3"'- I officiated at St. Paul's. Abraham ly^^ 
Francis''* here. — , — ' 

\_0£fober~\ 14. Abraham went to Newport. 

\05fober~\ 15. I was at Home. Ben Allen's Son came 
for me. 

[O^iober] 16. 1 rode Sam Gardiner's*^' Horse to Ben 
Allen's & dined at Rowland's." 

\05fober~\ 17. Anstis came here and her husband 
came for her in the Evening. 

\0^ober\ 18. Harry carted wood. I sent for Row- 
land's Horse. 

\0^ober~\ 1 9. Mrs. Ailmy came in y^ afternoon. I went 
toTho.^ Phillips's.^94 

\03lober~\ 10. Sunday. It rained all last night. Tho'! 
Phillips & Benjamin Mumford went with me to Coe- 
set c*"', where I officiated and administered y^ Eu- 
charist. 

\0^ober\ 21. I preached at Mr. Lippet's^'' where I 
lodged y^ night before, and, after Divine Service, 
gave the Sacrament to him, his wife, Mrs. Francis 
and her Husband, and stayed again all night. 

\0^ober\ 11. In my way from Warwick called at 
Thomas Phillips's and Justice Gardiner's*^^ and got 
safe Home ^ an hour after Sunset. Mrs. Ailmy at 
my House ever since my Departure. Sherman car- 
ried my Steers. 

\05iober\ 23. Harry carry** Mrs. Ailmy home in y^ 
chaise. He and y^ Girls digged Potatoes. Sam. Gar- 
diner*^' came from his House with me and supped 
here. Joseph Northrup*'^ desired me to publish him 
next Sunday, to Mary Congdon, Daughter of Jn° 
Congdon. 

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1745 [O^ober] 24}^' It is a pleasant morning. Harry and 

w~^ — • y'= Girls digging Potatoes. 

[O^ol>er] 25. Remarkably fine weather. Wind at 
South west. Harry carry'* my Horse to George Haz- 
ard's.'^ Began the South Battry {sic). 
\0^ober\ 26. Harry finished the Battery. He com- 
plains of a sore throat. 

[prober] 27. Sunday. Officiated at St. Paul's. I drove 
my wife, Harry being ill with a sore Throat. 
Anstis^' dined here. My dear has no need to think I 
shall be worse than my promise, if she survives me. 
We heard Capt. Richard Mumford^'^ is dead. If so, 
L** sandify it to his wife and Son.^^^ 

The Diary is resumed after an 
interval of nearly Six Tears. 
*uly Friday 19''' 1751, a fine morning, cool and 
wind at west. My men stacking Hay. Joseph 
[esse^^^ came to me on a Message from Betty 
Sweet, to attend her Husband's Capt. Sweet's Fu- 
neraP°° tomorrow; he died y^ Morning. 
Saturday July 20''' 1751, a fine clear Morning fore- 
boding a hot Day; wind at N: W. Tom^' has bro't 
Mo'"^ mare for me to ride to Capt. Sweet's Fu- 
neral, and thence to Xtopher Phillips's '^^ in my way 
to Coeset c''\" My men carrying Cocks of Hay. I 
received a Packet of Mr. Greaves's'°' for to be for- 
warded to London, and a Present of writing Paper. 
Sunday July iV^ 1751- I rode in the Heat from 
Xtopher Phillips's to Coeset, read Prayers, preached 
and administered y^ Eucharist, returned and outrid 
y^ Rain to Phillips's, dined th'^ and got Home in y^ 
Evening. HannibaP°* went with me on y^ Ranger, 
as I rode Mo" mare. Samuel Casey Jun' '°' and 
George Mumford" Peter's Bro' stayed y' night at 
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Monday, July ii""^- 1751. Peter and y^ Negro's fin- \n c\ 
ished mowing raked and stacked some Hay. ^— v— ' 

\yuly 23"^-] Tuesday. Peter and y^ Negro's finished 
stacking y^ Hay in y^ Forenoon. 
Wednesday, July 24'''' 1751. My two Negro's plowing 
in y^ Buckwheat as Manure for English wheat. 
I had an ugly Dream ^""^ last night. ... I told her 
of it, but will not set it down least these Pages fall 
into bad Hands. . . . Lord lengthen out our Tran- 
quillity. 

Thursday, July 25** 1751. I have slept (blessed be 
God) without much Distress and dreamed but a 
litle to y'' Purpose of my last night's Dream; but 
was assisted to drive from my Mind the Dream y' a 
litle disturbed me. I believe y' reading the Life of 
Cleaveland'°^ nat' Son to Cromwel gave me all y'^ 
Distresses. The whole is certainly a Fid:ion, y'^ never 
having been such a man, nor such occurrences as it 
relates. I believe it is wrote to blacken y" Stuart 
Family,'''^ to raise men's Esteem of y" Revolution 
w'^'' seems now to be sinking; But Romance can't, 
ought not to discredit Realitys. Blud could not be 
G . . . a Frenchman, since he was an Irishman. 
Harry** and HannibaP°* are plowing down y^ Buck- 
wheat — let me, o God, w'*" some tolerable Degree of 
Pleasure, if it be y'' will wait till my change comes. 
Make me more humble, useful and cheerful and not 
so much as heretofore vallue Esteem and Applause 
from man; but behave so as to get and secure thy 
Approbation and an absolving Sentence from mine 
own Heart. 

Bless my wife and servants with y^ needfuUest and 
best Blessings. 

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1751 two negro's are gone to help Mr. Mumford" to mow. 

w-^—' Col: Updike ■" came to Breakfast with us y' morning 
from Tower hill^^ where he had been filing Declara- 
tions. He told us a Surprizing Piece of news, but of 
a Piece w'*' the other late Proceedings of y*" Rhode 
Island'"^ ch'^menjvis' y^ y^ young Peter Bourse'"^ read 
Prayers and preached in y'' c''*' there last Sunday w'''' 
any kind of ordination. May God open y* young 
man's eyes y' he may see y' he has transgressed 
against y^ Lord in offering up y*" Publick Prayers, 
w"** is y^ Same in y^ X" ch'', y' offering Incense on y^ 
Altar was in y" Jewish Uzziah was thrust out of y^ 
Sanduary for such a Desecration w'" turned to his 
Dishonour he became a Leper to his dying Day. 
Mo'^'^ came here to stay all night. 

Saturday^ July i']^ i75i.My two negro's howing in 
y" Buckwheat and sowed turnips to Day. Mo- is here. 
I have not been well and my Arm is in its old weak 
Frame. 

Sunday, July 28*" 175 1. Good God go w"" me to y^ 
House and bless both Priest and People. 
Mr. Mumford^' tells me Bourse's reading &c hath 
disgusted many at Newport and y"'' have sent for 
Mr. Usher."-^ 

Sunday, July i"^^- 1751. It is a hot Day, I am re- 
turned from ch^ Mo' is gone Home, it looks like 
Rain. 

Monday, July 29*" 175 1. 1 wrote by Samuel Browne ^-^'^ 
to Mr. Usher, we have had a fine refreshing Rain 
y^ Forenoon. My two Negro's are threshing Rye. 
Mr. Usher who had officiated y" Day before at 
Newport came here. By him I understand y' Peter 
Bourse's'"* officiating is disliked by many, and will 

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breed Disturbance: God guard my ch'' against y" In- 1751 
roads of Lay Readers. ^-^— ' 

Tuesday, July 30^*^ ^7S^' After Dinner, I caried Mr. 
Usher in my chaise to y^ Ferry. '°^ He promised to 
inquire farther about Dr. Avery's Letter ^'° advers: 
Episcopos Americanos instituendos, Ben Peckham's 
wife rode with me in my chaise from Ferry to Wat- 
son's.^" 

Wednesday, July 31*'- It rained, and my Men are 
threshing 

yfug'* i^' 1751- Thursday. I have been in my 
_^^/j|r Study all Day. I pray God y^ Sermon^'* I 
have in hand, may do good, & give no Of- 
fense. I think it my Duty to bear Testimony against 
Lay-reading, especially in y" Eldest ch*' in y^ Col- 
ony,''' and whose Example may prove perilious to 
Country Parishes and ignorant People. Jn° Good- 
body^''' here a Combing,'"'^ Mary Chappel at work 
also, and Gideon Casey ''^ bro't my Gold Buttons for 
mending w'^'' I gave him 30 sh: 

Friday, Aug^^ 1^ I75i- My men who threshed yester- 
day and winnowed 12 Bushels Rye are threshing to 
Day, Jn° Goodbody and Mary Chappel at work. I fin- 
ished my Sermon ab' Noon God Almighty add his 
Blessing to it 

Saturday, Aug'-'' 3, 1751. Mo--** came here yesterday 
and is here to Day. 

Sunday, Aug'''' /^^- 1751. I read Prayers, & preached 
from Heb: 5:4,'" ag'' unordained Teachers, ^r«?«^^/^ 
Lay Readers in our ch\ It has been an exceeding hot 
Day. Mo' dined with us upon Suckatash''^ and Ham 
and went Home in y^ Evening. Mary ChappeP'-' 

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in CI dined here also. I wrote to Capt. Campbel & Dr. 

w^ MofFat.''« 

Monday, Aug''^ 5''' 175 1. we got up early and I drove 
my wife to y^ Ferry in her way to Newport whither 
she is gone and Peter" and Bolico*" to attend her. 
I went over y^ Ferry with her wh'^ we waited long 
for the Boat; but having got over ab' 10 ante merid: 
we went to Mr. Martin's^*^ and stayed to Dinner. I 
p"* Martin £^i\ for wool, being 6' over, and my wife 
rode behind Peter on Martin's gray horse and Mrs. 
Martin went over to Town with her. 
I got home in y^ Afternoon, and found Jn°: comb- 
ing wool for Anstis.^' 

Tuesday, Aug^^ G^ 1751- My men are plowing down 
Rye Stuble and weeds, Peter got Home in y^ Fore- 
noon and bro't me a Letter from Capt. Campbel y' 
he was to sail on to Day, he tells me my wife and 
Friends are well, and several Familys so disgusted at 
Peter Bourse's'"^ reading Prayers, y' they will not go 
to ch\ 

I don't wonder at it. O God work good out of y' 
Evil and Disorder, & dispose y^ Patrons of Religion 
at Home to discountenance and suppress y^ Practice. 
Jn° Goodbody*^^ went away y' Evening & Peter bro't 
Home a Puppy w'^'' is to be called Rambler since 
changed to Ringwood. 

Wednesday, Aug^"- 7^ 1751- Harry ^^ is gone to mill w"" 
y^ Rye Jn" BulP'^ sent Home yesterday by Tom^^ 
Last night it lightened and thundered. I dreampt^"' '°'* 
of a divine Appearance, y' a Beautiful Building began 
to flash fire and y' it was y" Shechinah, y* it contained 
Seven Stones y' 6 of y"" were wrote on y^ inside and 
outside with y" Names of the tribes of Israel y' y^ 7'*" 
was for my Name to be wrote in. May God Almighty 

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grant me the white Stone promised to his chosen 1751 
[illegible] y^ meaning of y' Dream. Harry abused — , — - 
his Fellow servant Hannibal last night for w"*" must 
remember to corred; him. 

Thursday y Aug^' 8"" 175 1. My Negro's plowed in the 
Forenoon, and since Dinner have been winnowing 
Rye. I have wrote to Capt. Campbel '" & sent 7 Dol- 
lars ^^" for some small Books & Pamphlets; And by 
Hannybal, who goes to Town tomorrow, those, and 
a Letter to my dear wife will be g'''=>''='*. 

Friday, Aug^'- 9"" 1751. HannibaP°* went to Newport 
y^ Morning & carry*^ green Corn, Beans and Apples, 
to Mrs. Willcinson."^ I have searched everywhere, 
and can find no Sugar, w'^'' I susped: Maroca'"-^ stole 
out of y^ Barril last Monday, w" we were all from 
Home. I found a Cheese w'^'' Harry bo't of Jn°: Gard- 
ner's wife on y^ Hill.^" Gracious God, give my Ser- 
vants Grace to live in a holier manner, y^ my Peace 
& Property mayn't be invaded by y*"' evil doings, and 
y' y^" own Guilt mayn't be increased; par*"'^ reform 
y"", if it be y^ blessed will, from y^ sins of uncleaness, 
stealing & lying. Gideon Casey ^'^ was here to Day; 
And Harry ^^ and Tom are plowing in Stuble. Samuel 
Browne^"" borrowed one Bushel of Rye. 

S atur day, A ug^^ 10'^ My Negro's have been winnowing 
Rye, and we have in all ab' 2>S% Bushels; instead 
of 40 as I expeded. I had a broiled chicken for Din- 
ner, w"*" is all y^ meat I have eat since Monday, ex- 
cept two or 3 mouthfuls of Ham on Friday night, 
Hannibal bro't me a letter from my wife, w"" God 
preserve; But my dear Friend Wilkinson is laid up 
again with his gouty Humor, w"** siezes him now like 
y*" Cramp. Col. Updike ^^' has not been so kind, as to 
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ly ci may God give me Grace to bear it with Equanimity, 

— , — and give my troubles of every kind a happy Issue; 

to w'^'' End do thou my dear Redeemer enable me to 

live like y^ best Servants and w' I want in y' world, 

will be made up in y^ Rewards of y^ next. 

Sunday, Aug^^ 1 1"" 1751. I am going to God's House, 
I pray thee my God to go w''' me; be graciously pres- 
ent in our Assembly, and in all y" Assemblys of y^ 
Saints. I read Prayers & preached, catechised y^ chil- 
dren and expounded y^ Creed. Mo'*-^ & Amos ^^^ dined 
w'"" us, and she stay'd and drank Tea. 

Monday, Aug^^ 12, 1751. I got up before y^ Sun y^ 
Morning and am going w'"" God's Permission, and I 
hope under his Proteftion and Guidance to see Capt. 
Wilkinson"^ who is ill, and to bring Home my wife. 

Tuesday, Aug'''' 13''' Stay'd all Day with Capt. Wilkin- 
son, save the time I was dining w'*" Peleg Browne'** 
and making a visit at Hunter's.'*^ Then I met my 
wife at Daniel Ayrault's'°''"' who was come from a 
visit at Edw** Cole's.**' 

Wednesday, \/^ Aug^^ I took leave of my dear Friend 
whose Pains were a litle easier, but not fixed, as I 
believe they will be before y' Fit of Gout is over. I 
read Prayers and preached at Mr. Martin's.^^ Peleg 
Browne, Daniel Ayrault, Samuel Freebody,'*^Do6ter 
Hooper"** and one Carter was there from Newport. 
I came over y^ Ferry went to Bro' Jn°'"* to talk w'*" 
him, and soften him about his Son Amos who intends 
to marry Sarah Bill.'*'* But Jn°, as he always was, is 
of stiff and sturdy Temper. And y' will give him the 
agreeable Excuse of not parting with his Pelf, as he 
does not like y^ Match. 

[August] Thursday, 15''' at Home all Day. 

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\Augusf\ Friday, i6% it rained, and prevented our ly^i 

Journey to Warwick. — ^ — ' 

\_August\ Saturday, 17^^ we went in the Afternoon to 

Col. Updike's '° to lodge all night. 

[August] Sunday, i %'^, we rode from Col. Updike's, 

called at Xtopher Phillips's/^' got to ch*" where I read 

Prayers preached, and got y' night to Warwick." the 

ch"" was full. 

\_August'\ Monday, 1 9"". I read Prayers and preached 

at Mrs. Lippet's,^'' visited twice at Jer:*^^ and once 

at Joseph Lippet's.^^^ 

\_August~\ Tuesday, 10. got up early, set out, oated at 
Pierce's,^"*^ reached Mr. Phillips's; and in y^ After- 
noon got Home, blessed be God. 
\_August'\ Wednesday, 'Thursday, Friday and Part of 
Saturday viz* i\, 11, 23, 24 I spent in transcribing 
my Sermon''* on Heb: 5. 4 for y^ Press and perus- 
ing Authoritys, in y^ Evening of Saturday wrote to 
Mr. Auchmuty'*' of New York, and a Cover to 
Rich"! Nichols Esq^ Postmaster."" 
Sunday, Aug^^ 1 ^^- 1 7 5 1 , officiated at my own ch\ wrote 
a Letter in y^ Evening to Dr. Gardiner.'' Mo'** dined 
here. 

Monday, Aug''"' iQ^ 1751, wrote to Mr. Wilkinson "^ 
& inclosed in it mine to Peleg Browne, wrote to Mr. 
Greaves '°' inclosing tho'ts in answer to Jn° Wesley 
in favor of Lay Preaching. 

Tuesday Morning, Aug'''' 27*'' 1 75 1 • We opened a Barril 
of Flower yesterday, and the same Day Mary Chap- 
peP''' came to work upon my waistcoat and her Sis- 
ter Bentley*'^^ on a visit, when y^ eat Watermellons 
sent by Isaac Fowler"' who sent for Honey and had 
it. Widow Shearman"* sent me some rare ripe Peaches 

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lyci of w"*" my wife gave some to Kit Fowler'" y" Taylor 
w-^w who supped with Peter." This morning Amos'^'^ 
came for my wife, who is gone with him to see her 
Mo' very bad with a Flux May God relieve her, and 
fit her for her End [if] it should be his will to re- 
move her by y^ Illness"'^ Lord give a Sight and Sense 
of all her Sins, have Repentance and firm Faith and 
believe on y^ Merits and Intercession of her dear 
Redeemer. 

I am going to see her, good Lord go with me, & 
suggest such y^*"" to my mind, and words to my 
mouth as may be adapted to the State and [illegible] 
of her Soul. Jn°'^ two children viz' Jn° & Molly "^ have 
been here since last Wednesday. 

JVednesday^ Aug""^ 1%'^' 1751. My men cutting Corn 
Stalks. 

Thursday y A ug^^ i<f'- 1 75 1 . 1 got up this morning early, 
and finding HannibaP°^ had been out ... I stript 
and gave him a few Lashes till he begged. As Harry^^ 
was untying him, my poor passionate dear, saying I 
had not given him eno', gave him a lash or two, upon 
w'^'' he ran, and Harry after him as far as William 
Brown's."° As y^ were returning he slipt from Harry 
naked as he was above y^ waist. Peter and Harry found 
[him] toward night at Block Island Henry Gardi- 
ner's,"^ bro't him Home, and then carried him to 
Duglasse's*°^ where he had w' is called Pothooks put 
about his Neck. So y' it has been a very uneasy Day 
with us o y' God would give my Servants — the Gift 
of chastity. 

Friday^ Aug^"- i^o"^' 1751- Harry, Hannibal and.Tom^' 
ground and put up a Pressing of Apples. Molly 
Robinson"'' came h'* on Mo'' mare. 
[August 31"] Saturday. Harry has gone to get y^ 

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Chaise mended, as Molly Browne"°'*" had my ly^ 
Chair '-^^ yesterday to go to Warwick. Hannibal and — , — - 
Tom are picking Beans, Poll Robinson"^ still h'^ 
I have shaved. May God prepare me for y^ Sacra^ 
and y^ other Services of his Sand:uary tomorrow. 

(^ Sunday^ Se-pf i''' 1751. I read Prayers, published 
Amos Gardiner'^'* and Sarah Bill'*^ y'^ 3'' time 
administered y^ Eucharist. Con [illegible] 
Bro^ Jn":'^ & Bathsheba Martin"' dined h^ Jn°'^ 
two children"^ still here. Lord pardon my short- 
comings in Duty and ill Deserts, and grant y*" Sacra' 
I have administered to Day and received, may prove 
a g^^y^"" of more Grace. 

Monday^ Sepf 2, 1751. I went to Joseph Jesse's^^^ 
wh'^ Isaac Fowler,"' Tom Sweet'" and I searched 
his Swamp and could find but one Maple tree y' 
would do for Screws. We went into Col' Northup's 
Land''^" and saw fine swamp white Oaks but no 
Maple straight eno*. I came Home by y^ way of the 
Mill.5+' 

Tuesday^ Sepf j"*- 1751. My wife carry ed Jn°'' two 
children with her on a visit to mo'--"* and Tho' Gar- 
diner's wife''^'' who has lately been bro't to Bed of a 
Boy. There she saw Hannah Champlin.*^^ 
Wednesday^ Sepf a^^- My wife went and visited Anstis,*' 
took y^ two children with her who went to Mrs. 
Willet's." At Rowland's"' she saw Mrs. Champlin, 
Capt. Bulls '■^' and Mr. Willet's wife. 
'Thursday, Sepf 5"'- 1751. It rained but Harry and I 
went to Nathan Gardiner's, who, with Paul Niles''^"^ 
went and searched Nathan's and his Bro' Henry's"^ 
Swamp for timber for y^ Cyder Skrews and as we 

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ijci returned found Maples in JeofFry Watson's'^'"'" 
w.,^— . Swamp and got leave to cut y™. 

Friday, Sepf 6"^- 175 1, the two negro men Peter" and 
myself went and cut two Maples and one Swamp 
white Oak in Watson's Swamp and in the Afternoon 
got them Home. 

at noon Tom Dickson'*^ carry*^ Home Mo'" mare y' 
I rode y' Day and y^ Day before, and in y" Evening 
Harry carried Home Watson's Cart and his 4 oxen. 

Saturday, SepV y"-^- 1751. Harry split 120 Stakes, 
Hannibal and Tom gathered Beans, we got in y*" 
Hay, and got Home y^ Stalks, and in y^ Evening 
all Hands shelled Beans. I received a Letter from 
Nathaniel Sheffield ^"^^ y' he'l come y' Middle of this 
week y' we enter into y^ Sunday. 
Sunday, Sepr 8"'- 175 1. Mary ChappeP'^ is h'" as she 
has been since Friday night. I am going to ch**, O, 
y' God would go with me, and bless y^ Means of In- 
strudion to my People and [illegible] our weak En- 
deavours in his Service. I must write to Sheffield in 
y^ Morning. I have wrote to Nath' Sheffield. Mo', 
Br° Jn", and Mr. Martin'^ of Conanicut dined h". 
Lord dired: me how to manage my Man Hannibal, 
who is headstrong and Disobedient. 
Monday, Sepf 9'^' Hannibal's Disobedience yesterday 
and malpert {sic) Behaviour to his M" this Morning 
exposed him to the whip and Peter gave him several 
Lashes. He and Harry went to work, but he soon 
ran off and I got Peter in the Afternoon to help 
Harry to make Rail Fence round the Field behind 
the orchard. 
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old. O, how litle in all y' while have I lived to God. 17CI 
Peter and Harry made Fence and finished y^ foresaid ^-y^ 
Field. Tom Walmsley bro't home Hannibal in y^ 
Evening, and he bro't me a Note of Xtopher Phil- 
lips's '^^' ^+^ to Spare him, w'*" I did upon his Promise 
of better Behaviour. 

Wednesday, 7''" 1 1 . Peter and Harry made Rail Fence 
round the Corn Field at y" Pondside. 

Thursday, y^" 12. Peter help't Harry and Hannibal 
in y^ Morning, it rained and y^ Negro's shelled Beans. 

Friday, y^" if^- Nath' Sheffield'*^ came to make y" 
Cyder Skrews and Press, and went with me to look 
Timber as far as Jo: Jesse's^'^ Farm & Peter and 
Harry bro't home y^ Beans. 

Parted with Sheffield at Jesse's Farm, dined at Xto- 
pher Phillips's and got to Warwick y' night. 

Saturday, 7''" the \^^- 1751. I officiated at Mrs. Lip- 
pet's ^^ and a New Light '""^ woman was at c*". 

Sunday, 7''" i5"'- I administered y^ Sacra' to Mrs. 
Francis'^ &c, went to ch*", read Prayers, baptized 
Jeremiah Pierce'"*^ a child, whose Fa' died at Sea, 
and his Mo' is Peggy Martin''*^ y' was, daughter of 
Robert Martin of Nutfield alias Londonderry. I ad- 
ministered y^ Eucharist and ch** and preached to a 
large Congregation, dine at Kit Phillips's and got 
Home y' night. Col. Updike '° at ch*" on Saturday 
and Sunday & he and his wife rode with us to y^ 
parting Gate."° 

Monday, 7''" i6'^- 1751. Peter" having the Day be- 
fore heard HannibaP°^ in Conversation with Robert 
Hazard's Jack of N. Kingstowne"' concoding an- 
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I J CI him, I sent Peter to carry him to Mr. Martin's^^ my 
w-^ — ■ Friend, on Conanicut, and he sent with Peter his 

black Boy Calais to do chores for a few Days. Mr. 

Sheffield is at work on y^ Skrews. 

'Tuesday^ ^^" ly^*"- Wednesday, y' iS'*"- Thursday, i^'^- 
Friday^ id-^- Saturday, iV- Sheffield here at work and 
I went to Mr. Robinson's Funeral.''* 

Sunday, Sepf ii^- I officiated at my own ch*" and 
Sheffield, who went to see his Mo' ''■* y" night be- 
fore, returned y^ Evening. 

Monday, Sepf i^^- Sheffield at work and so he is Tues- 
day y^ 24* but has finished, and I have paid him his 
Demand, viz' ^15 besides ^3: 10'" w"*" I sent as a 
charity to his Fa' in Law Everet y'' Baptist Teacher '''^ 
My wife went to visit and condole her Sister'^'''* 
and stayed all night. 

Wednesday, Sepf 2C^^^- 1751. Xtopher Robinson'" 
drove my wife Home in y^ Chaise, as Amos Gar- 
diner'*'* had drove her to Point Judith'''* y^ Day be- 
fore two Irishmen help to shell Beans. 

Thursday, j^' 26^^- 1751. My wife and I i went to 
young Xtopher Phillips's,"'' where I baptized his 
second Son by y^ name of Xtopher. Suretys the two 
Grandfa% viz' Thomas and Xtopher Phillips '^^ and 
my wife, we dined there, and went to Col. Up- 
dike's,'" where I baptized a negro child named 
Bridget. Suretys Mrs. Updike,*^' her Daughter Ruth 
Wanton*^' and myself. 

Friday, y^' ay'*"' 1751. My wife and I lodged at Col. 
Updike's last night and got Home this Forenoon 
and found Harry *^ finished Husking y*" Shipyard"^ 
field Corn, and in y^ Afternoon he cutt down and 

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carried in a part of j^ South field; two young Irish- ijci 

men,"^ viz' Mr. Johnson and James Kerigan lodged , ■ 

here and helped to Huske Corn. 

Saturday J /' 28'''- 1751. Harry cutt down, and he and 
y^ Boys, with Emblo's" help in y^ Afternoon carried 
in all y*" Corn of y^ S field. Johnson Kerigan and 
Burroughs y' 3 Irishmen took y^*^ Leave, the first 
and last are bound to So Carolina "^ but Kerigan in- 
tends to winter & pedle here. 

Sunday y f 29'^- 1751. Michaelmas Day. I officiated 
at eh*", & gave notice of y^ Sacral Kerigan was at ch**, 
who I believe was bred in y*" popish way. Mo'^'* & 
Bro' Jn.°'^ dined here, and by them I understand that 
Sister Robinson'^' '^^ is like to meet with Trouble in 
her Executorship from y*" children of her last Hus- 
band's first wife. This evening Baptized Emblo's Son, 
a child, and named him Stepney.*^ 

Monday, j^' ^o'^- 1751. A Foggy Morning w''' pro- 
mises to precede a fair & hot Day. Harry cut down 
and carted the Corn y' grew, in w' we call Newport's 
Meadow. Five of Bro' Jn°"' People, black Jemmy 
Smith, Peter" and Hands finished husking my Corn. 
Zephaniah Browne'^" trimmed my Cyder Cask, for 
w'*" I paid him ^i : 4: o. One Shirley, an Irish Ped- 
lar"^ was here, I invited him to stay all Night, but 
he chose to go to Tower Hill. It was Foggy in y^ 
Morning, but proved a fine warm sunshining Day. 
Blessed be God for so good weather to harvest in. I 
gave 4 of Bro' Jn°'' negro's 10' among them, and 2^ 
between Pompey and Jemmy Smith. 

O5lober. 
'Tuesday, O&oberV'- 1 75 1 . This forenoon Harry 
Cribbed Corn, and carted in y^ tops of y^ Corn 

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lyri Stalks out of Newport's Meadow. He cribbed to Day 
._^^ in all 2,8 Bushels. Emblo, and Bolico*" to Day and 
yesterday got in as many Apples for Mrs. Wilkin- 
son,"^as to fill a h^'"'. George Hazard,'^' Son of George, 
deceased, was here for Shoes, and told Peter, one 
Jo: Potter an Indian, an Exhorter among the New 
Lights,'"^ was found dead among the Husks, of old 
Esq" Helme's widow,^^'' whose Corn it seems was 
husked last Night, and its tho't the Fellow overdrank 
himself this Day one Benj" Baker, Bro- to Taylor 
Bentley's^-^*^ wife, was drowned in y^ Pond before 
my House, as he and a Boy, nephew to said Bent- 
ley, were Scowing wood from Jn°: Smith's Farm.^^* 
People are now drawing y" Seine to find y" Body. 
In the Same fatal Pond'^ was my fine Negro Step- 
ney,^' the best of Servants drowned Some years ago. 
We had great need to be in a g''^"' state of Prepara- 
tion; lest we are suddenly snatched hence. Good 
Lord prepare me for my last Summons. Harry has 
bro't a Sheep from Isaac Fowlers."' I wish he had 
gone Sooner. 

Wednesday , O^' 2*^- 175 1. Harry and the Boys finished 
Cribbing Corn, we have but 51 Bushels of good, and 
5 Ditto, of Hog Corn, exclusive of the Turkey 
wheat, wherof there is but 3 Bushels good and 3 
bad, besides a litle Corn in y" old orchard. I re- 
ceived a Letter from Mr. Jn° Berriman'^' dated 
June 24"^ last, and one from Samuel Auchmuty'^' 
dated 7''" 23*^ 1751- The People y' handled y" Seine, 
at last found Ben: Baker's Body ab' noon y' Day. 
Tom^^ carry'^ home Mr. Mumford's" Flails, and 
Jonas Clay is here. Wind all y' Day and last night 
has blown strong at N: E and yet no Rain. 

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over without Rain and it is a fine, Sunny, warm morn- ij ci 
ing. Jonas picking up Apples, Harry and Calais fin- — ^ — - 
ishing pulling y" Corn Stalks. Emblo bring [ing] in 
Winter Apples. My wife is going to see her Mo'/* 

Friday, Otl" 4""- 1751. Harry &c ground Apples and 
made a small Pressing; but some Apples shook and 
immediately put into y^ Mill were so hard we could 
not grind them, filled Ja^ Easton's*^^ Barrils. 

Saturday, O^" ^'■^- 1 75 1 . Harry, Jonas, Calais and Tom 
picked up in y^ So orchard and carried into y^ other 
2 Cart Load of Apples. Cut and squeezed y^ Cheese 
so y^ by Sunday morning it ran 25 pailfulls. Harry 
washed Jonas, I gave him a Pair of Breeches. 

Sunday, 0£f' G^- 175 1. Jemmy Dickson'*^* bro't me a 
Letter from Capt. Wilkinson,"^ and one from his 
Lady to my wife. I pray for y^ presence and Bless- 
ing in y^ House, o God. 

Monday, 8^" 7"'- 175 1. Jemmy Dickson went Home 
and I wrote to Capt. Wilkinson. My People picked 
up and carted two Load of Apples. Jonas here. 

Tuesday, 8*" S'''- 1751. My People picked up & carted 
4 Load of Apples and y*" 7''' is in Cart. Jonas here 
and Jn° Goodbody*^^ since Monday Morning. Mr. 
Robert Hamilton'^' in his way to New York lodged 
here. 

Wednesday, 8*" 9'''- Mr. Hamilton and Jonas gone in 
y* Morning & Jn° Goodbody in y"" Afternoon: we 
ground a Pressing of Apples. 

'Thursday, 8*" lo'*"- 1751. a great Storm of wind and 
Rain windN: E: I went to y^ Ferry and married 
Amos Gardiner'** to Sarah BilP'^^ got Home about 
4 o Clock post meridiem. The Post bro't me a Letter 
from y*" Rev'' Mr Browne of Piscat'' '^'' yesterday. 

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lyp Friday, 8"^' ii'*^- 1751. The wind g"""'= at N:E and 
>— ^^ rains some, It is Coronation Day,''^^ and we plainly 
heard y^ Guns of Rhode Island Fort'^ fired on y^ 
occasion, began to fill Tom Walmsly's^^ Cyder and 
picked some Apples. Peter ^^ came from y^ wedding 
at night.'^^' '^" 

Saturday, S'" i^'*"" 1 751. we finished gathering up and 
carting apples and Pompions,^^° finished Walmsly's 
2 Barrils; And he carted them home with my Cart, 
in w'*" Harry bro't Home a ^^ weather from Isaac 
Fowler's ''' Amos Gardiner, and Capt. James Gardiner 
from New London, were here, who bro't me a Letter 
from M' Greaves. '°' Emblo's^' child very sick with a 
Cold and Pthisick. I paid M^ Mumford" 8^ for Mr. 
Browne's '^^ Letter and 16' for Mo'''*^ Bundle from 
Boston, w'^'' he says is — ^ in all. 

Sunday, S^' i^'^- 1751. God be gracious to me this Day, 
forgive me all my Sins, and give me y^ presence and 
Spirit in y^ Sanctuary. 

Monday, 8*" i4"'' 1751. ground Apples. 

Tuesday, %^' i <^^- 175 1. Sent a h''' of Apples and 4 B^'^ 
Cyder to y^ Ferry for Capt. Wilkinson. "^ 
Wednesday, 8*" i6"'- ground Apples. M' Clevesly and 
his Girl Came here this Evening, as did Dr. Mofi^at,"*^ 
Capt. Ned Cole,^^'^"^' and Capt. Jemmy Gardiner 
and lodged all night. I am bad with a Cold. 

'Thursday, 8^" I7'''" 1751. Our Guests are all gone, and 
Dr. Moffat is sent for to Col. Updike's,'° whose wife 
y^ say is sick. 

\0£loher 18'''] Friday, ground our last pressing of 
Apples and finished putting up some for winter. 
Saturday, 8^' I9'''" 1751. finished pressing good Cyder. 
Lord, prepare us for Sunday. 

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Mstx&tt of £)ut ^txWts. 

Sunday, 8*" 2o'''- 1 7 5 1 . 1 went to ch\ and during Prayers \n c\ 
and Sermon it thundered lightened and rained ex- ^-^,w 
ceedingly. It was so Dark, the People could hardly 
see to read, I made a Shift to do without Speftacles,'^' 
save reading y^ 1^ Lesson. 

The Thunder struck Col: Northrup^^''*° and his 
Son, as they sat by y^ Fire, singed y^ Boy's Eye 
Brows, and killed y^ Col: 4 fat Hogs, y' were in a 
Pen contiguous to y^ House. 

Monday, 8*" 2i''- 1751. I drove in my chair '•♦^ to see 
Col. Updike's wife,^^' who has been verry ill with a 
Flux and vomiting but both are abated, and I hope 
and think she will do well. The Col. bargained with 
me for a Bill of ^50 St''^.'^* I got home well thro' 
God's Goodness and found Hannah Minturn^^' at 
work for my wife. 

Black Natt has carried my Mare and Colt to Sago,^''* 
she having been starved on y^ Plain I hayed from y^ 
Col. Updike's ab' a week ago, and Pierce bro't her 
Home to my House in my Absence 
I am bound to Newport and Bristol, Good God do 
thou go with and guide me in all my ways, prosper 
and succeed all my Interprizes and bring me Home 
in Safety if it be y'' blessed will. I was bound to Town 
to Day, but y^ visit I made disappointed me, and I 
hope it was for y^ best. O God all thou doest is best, 
who Evr would repine at any y"^ we com''' call a Dis- 
appointment. 

Tuesday, 8*" ii^- 1751. I went over the Ferry to Co- 
nanicut, dined with Mr. Martin ^^ and got to New- 
port in y^ Afternoon. 

Wednesday, y' 23**' 'Thursday, 24""' and the Forenoon 
of Friday, y' 25^^' I spent at Newport, in y^ After- 
noon of Friday, Capt. Wilkinson "^ on his young 

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lyri Horse, and I .m his Chair with y^ old Horse went 
w-^ — ' to Borden's Ferry;"* But the wind blowing hard, 
we took our Horses out of the Boat & lodged at 
Borden's and one Mr. Lowel"*^ of Boston with us. 
Saturday ^f 26 of S''"' 1751, we crossed Bristol Ferry "* 
and went to M' Usher's,"'* where we dined, & y" 
Afternoon I visited several old Friends"^ and re- 
turned to Mr. Usher's where we lodged y' night. 
Sunday, S'^ay"'- M' Usher read Prayers, and I preached 
both Fore and Afternoon. It was a dark and raining 
Day and towards y^ End of my Afternoon Sermon 
I was forced to use Spedacles in y^ ch"" for y^ first 
time. Litle Nath. Bosworth"^ and Billy Gallop "^ 
came to see us at Usher's in y^ Evening. Ab' 10 
aclock at Night it Lightened and Thundered terri- 
bly. M' Usher has not been able yet to get Inform- 
ation ab' Col. Williams's and Dr. Avery's ''° Letter. 
Monday, S''' i2>^^' 1751. we crossed Bristol Ferry and 
got to Newport ab' 1-2 an Hour after 12. I p'' Capt. 
Wilkinson jC^ii for 4 new h'"'', to Capt. Harrison '^° 
j^45 : 10 for a Piece of black Sagathee ^^' he sometime 
ago sent me, ^2 to Col. Coddington^^' '" for i lb Pep- 
per and I lb of Salt Petre. Mrs. Wilkinson gave me 
^317: 12 w"*" Col. Updike left with her for me being 
in Part for a Bill of Exchange"* of ^£"50 SterK 
Tuesday, S'"' 29'''' fearing a Storm I came over the 
Ferrys and thro' God's Goodness got home safe by 
walking from Capt. Bill's.'*' I found Mo^*-*and Miss 
Nabby Gardiner *'° at my House. 
Wednesday, Ocf 3o'''' Cold and windy with y^ wind 
at Northwest. I thank God I came yesterday since I 
could not have crossed y" Ferrys with so much wind 
ag"' me. Mo' went Home in y*" Evening. 
Thursday, 8*" ji''' cold and windy again wind at 

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:a6stract of £)ut ^erUtceg. 

N:W. My wife carry'' Nabby home in y' Chair but lyp 
came home to Dinner. — , — - 

71 Y'ov'' I "• 1751. Friday Soft and warm weather. I 
/ y have been writing my Extra6l of out Services 
and y^ Notitia Parochialis.^^^ 
It rains y' Evening. 

Saturday^ Novl 2'*' 1751. Silvester Robinson ^^^ was here 
y^ morning. Br° Jn""^'^ wife visited and dined here. 
Called here Col, Updike, '° who is also to be here on 
Tuesday. Jn° Goodbody*^^ is returned from Town, 
has sold his Horse to Capt. Wilkinson"^ for X^5> 
and has bro't Home y^ Bag he carried the Carrots 
in to Mrs. Wilkinson wind at N : W : and blows high. 

Sunday y Nov'', j"*' 1751. The Congregation at ch'' verry 
thin, being cold weather windatN: W.John Smith's^'"' 
wife of Boston Neck buryed to Day occasioned some 
to be absent, my wife's Tooth Ache hindered her 
Attendance at ch*". I sealed up my Letters for London 
in a Cover to Charles Apthorp, Merch'.'^-* 
Monday, Nov'' ^'^' I received a L' from Capt. Wilkin- 
son advising me y' my B'' of Sugar and some Celery 
were come in Bill's Boat,'^^ and Harry is going to 
cart y" from y^ Ferry. A clear morning and litle wind 
from N:W: I went w* Harry in the Afternoon to 
mark trees to cut down for Firewood. 
Tuesday, Nov. 5^- 1751. I paid Mr. Mumford" ^£"3 
for a p' of wool Cards he bo't for my wife, and 4^ 
shi: on Mo'' Ace'. I wrote to Aunt Mumford^^"*^ 
ab' Ruth and her Son,^^^ ^q M' Martin^^ to sell 
Hannibal,'"^ as my wife did to Miss Kate Cod'"".^^ 
Col. Updike carried away my London Letters of 
Nov' i^' i75i> under Cover to Charles Apthorp and 
one to Mr. Sandford to be forwarded by Dr. Gar- 

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lyrj diner.^' I let him'^^ have Bills for ^^50 sterling & 
w^-w besides w' he p**, he owes me 106 Dollars,'^' 50 
Bushels of Indian Corn and XH- ^ in old Tenor i^''^ 
a Fine Day, but I fear a weather Breeder, as y^ wild 
Geese flew to Day. Col. Updike dined here in his way 
to Newport. 

JVednesday^ Nov: 6"^^- 1 7 5 1 , a Fine Day . Tom Walmsly ^^ 
cutting wood, as he was yesterday. Sister Robinson'^ 
and her Son Xtopher"^ dined here, poor woman she 
is now a widow, and will meet with Diflicultys eno' if 
God prevent not. 

'Thursday, Nov: j"^- 175 1, one Willet Laraby'^^ was 
cropped on Tower Hill^* for uttering counterfeit 
Bills pursuant to a Sentence of y^ Superior Court 
the week before. Peter ^' bro't me a Letter from Kit 
Robinson^" inclosing an Abstrad of his Fa""* will, 
it rained. 

Friday y Nov' 8^^- 1 75 1 , a fine Day, wind at S : W. Isaac 
Fowler's"' two fellows cut wood and Harry carted. 
In the Evening Paul Woodbridge Tanner'*^ bro't 
his Acc't of ^9: 18 to ballance w'"" I paid, he re- 
turned me ^i : 18 as a Present; but in truth, I im- 
agined him in my Debt and y' I owed him nothing. 
Saturday, Nov" 9""- 175 1. It rained from y^ N: E: yet 
Tom Walmsly and one of Fowlers People and Harry 
cut wood all Day. my wife who has been ill for 48 
hours past is better and up. I wrote a Letter at her 
Request to Mrs. Wilkinson"^ to go with Stocking 
yarn, and yesterday I inclosed y^ Abstra6l of W: R: 
will,"* and stated y*" Case for Dr. Gardiner" to get a 
Lawyer's opinion upon it. the Storm still g"""", now 
about 8 a Clock at night O God, prepare me for to 
morrow, for y^ Sanduary & y^ Services of it. 
Sunday, Nov' lo""- 1751. It snowed all this Forenoon, 

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:abgtract of £)ut ^ertjtces. 

from y' N: and N:W; but melted as it fell. I did not ly^i 
go to ch*", but read Prayers at Home, and published — ^ — ■ 
Tom Weeks '9° & Ruth Browne"° y' 2' time, my 
wife still ill a Bed. 

Monday^ Nov" 1 1*- 175 1 . My wife verry ill, & sent for 
Mrs. Bentley'+^and Mrs. Mumford." Tom Walmsly 
& Fowler's Cesar cut wood and Harry carted 4 Load; 
a drizzling Day. 

Tuesday J Nov'' lo}^- 1751. Ja' Easton^^*' bro't 2 oxen, 
and he, and Peter and Harry killed y" Mrs. Mum- 
ford went to see Phebe,*^ and Mo'*^ came here, as 
my wife and I were making Tea in y'^ Study '^' Mrs. 
Mumford returned and stayed all night. 
Wednesday y Nov'' I3"'- 1751. Harry carted 3 Load 
wood, Sam' Albro'^* came here, and Jas. Easton 
weighed y*" oxen @ 1788"' I paid £11 :4' 3 B"' Cyder 
@ £6 besides one I gave his wife, w"'*' w'*" y^ ^loo 
he had before is ^127:4, Eleven shill: above 17*^ a 
Pound. 

'Thursday^ Nov'' 14}^- 1751. Harry finished salting w^ 
Beef he left undone last night, carry'' Hannah Dick 
100 lb Beef, some salt and a Bushel Potatoes, the 
Boys pulling Turnips and Harry gone for Tho' 
Gardiner's''*^ mare w'^'' I'm to ride to Warwick to 
Morrow with God's Permission, whose Blessing how 
undeserving soever I am, I heartily pray for and trust 
to have. 

Friday y Nov" 15^- 1751. I travelled in Company with 
Sam' Albro to Warwick, going down near Joseph 
Jesse's ^^' the Mare I rode trip'd and fell down with 
her Nose to y^ ground but so recovered y* I kept my 
Sadie with Difficulty, and gave me such a Shake y^ 
the Pain across my Diaphragm has been very bad 
ever since. O God I thank thee from y^ Bottom of 

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I y r I my Heart, for y', and many other signal Preservations 

— , — • thou hast wrought for me. we called and dined [at] 

Xtopher Phillips's '^^'^^'^ and Harry carry"* two oxhides 

there, one weighed 92"" the other 104, and he carried 

back with him two curryed calf skins. 

Saturday^ Nov' i6'^" I read Prayers and preached at 
Mrs. Lippet's,^^ and baptized a child, y^ Son of Jo- 
seph Lippet,'^^ and Lucy his wife by y^ name of 
Joseph and beca" nec^^ inforced it, I myself only and 
Mrs. Francis''* were Sureties for y^ child, we dined 
at M' Jeremiah Lippet's.*^^ 

Sunday^ Nov'' ly'^- 1751. I read Prayers and preached 
at Coeset Church, went to Shanticut^^' to see Mr. 
Xtopher Lippet,'^'* who has lost his Eldest Son and 
5 other of his children are sick with y*" Distemper 
called y" Canker in y^ Throat. Mr. Knox^^^ lead my 
Horse over y^ River and I went over on y^ String 
Pieces of y^ low bridge having hold of Sam' Albro's'^* 
Hand with my left hand and having a Stick in my 
Right. God preserved me also here & o y' I may 
thank him, and be forever Dear to him both in y' 
and y^ other world. 

Monday^ Nov'' i8*- 1 751, we left M' Lippet's about 
II a Clock, crossed one Bridge ^^^ near his Saw mill, 
rode over y^ Force,^^^ and crossed y^ South Branch 
at Daniel Greene's Bridge ^^^ by his Saw Mill, we 
turned to y' Right and rode a Cross y^ Country to 
y'^ French Town,'^^ called at Davis y-^ Fuller's,''^' '^'^ 
p"* him 34' for scowring and pressing Flannel from 
thence we crossed y^ Country and by rides thro' y^ 
Easternmost Skirt of y*" great Plain,"*"' thro' Smiths 
Farm entered y' Road by y' ch'','*°^ and thro' y^ never 
failing Goodness of God y' followed us got Home 
safe in y° Dusk of y*" Evening it being after the finest 

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:abgtract of Out tiett>tces, 

weather, I ever saw at y' Season, a Foggy night. lyri 
Mr. Albro eat something as we had not dined and w-^.,-. 
after an Hour or two went Home. I met at Home 
a letter from Capt. Wilkinson "^ one from Mr. 
Greaves,'°' and another at 30' Postage,'*"^ from New 
Londonderry'*"'* in Pensilvania advising me, y' my 
only Bro' Archibald'*"' dyed last June, as did his wife 
the March before; Lord provide thou for his chil- 
dren, and if it might g"'" with thy wisdom, put me 
in a way to help them, if it can be done with Peace 
in my own House. O y' I were well settled in my 
own Country ,'*°^ and y' that poor man had never 
transported himself into these Parts, to y"" Detriment, 
I doubt [not?] of his Family. But my dear and good 
God I submit myself and all y^ concerns me to y'' 
wise disposal, and work in me true Resignation, Sub- 
mission to y^ will and Contentment with my Lot; 
but above all, prepare me for a happy Departure out 
of y^ Vale of Tears and Trouble. 

Tuesday y Nov'' ig^' 1751. Still Superfine weather, p** 
Mr. Mumford" 30' for y'^ L' 5' shillings for y'^ T 
and 15 towards a yard & half a la mode.'*"'' Amos'*"* 
was here and Harry is carting wood. 

T^ ecenf 1 5'''' Xmas, 1 7 5 1 > Wednesday^ a great Snow, 
^iB thro' w''*' I wallowed to ch*" and to my great 
Comfort Capt. Sam' Albro'^* received y^ Sac- 
ra'. He had heretofore in a great Sickness received 
clinick Co'", but now I hope God will give him Grace 
to g''""^ in y' Co™ of y^ ch*" It snowed y' Evening. 

Decern'' 16'^' Thursday. Snowed again. Jn° Gardiner'*"^ 
on y*" Hill had my oxen to sled wood, Jn° Janis was 
here and had a Cag of Cyder.*"^ 

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)ETTER BOOK and Abstra£f of Out 

Services.''^ 

The Diary appears to have been planned 
with a more limited scope than it aftually 
assumed. Not only does it embrace, in ac- 
cordance with its title, a memorandum of letters written and 
received by Dr. MacSparran and a record o^ services held by 
him outside the reputed limits of S. Paul's Parish, in Narra- 
gansett, as for example, at Coeset, Conanicut, Old Warwick 
and Westerly, but it also notes many of the daily incidents of 
his domestic life, the social events of the vicinage and, although 
to a somewhat limited extent, items of public interest. 

2 ^^May 29M." 

No year is here indicated, but the entry of August 1st, fol- 
lowing, shows it to have been 1743, 

3 "r^ Restoration. "" 

The Restoration of King Charles II. to the English throne. 
"The Act 12, Car. II., Cap. 14, appointed May 2<^th to be 
observed with public thanksgiving for a double reason, as 
being the birthday of Charles II. as well as the day of his 
Restoration." — Blunt's Annotated Book of Common Prayer. 
London. 1869. p. 578. 

4 '-''Mr. Plant of Newbury.'" 

The Rev. Matthias Plant was a missionary of the Society for 
the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts and was set- 
tled at Newbury, in the Colony of Massachusetts Bay, from 
1721 to 1753, the year of his death. It is noticeable that his 
ministry was, thus, nearly conterminous with that of Doftor 
MacSparran, in Narragansett. 

The chief highway between New York and Connefticut, on 
the one hand, and Providence and Boston, on the other, was, 
in the Doftor's day, the Post Road, more anciently called the 
Pequot Path of the Indians, passing lengthwise along the ridge 
of what is now MacSparran Hill, above and a little to the 

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westward of the Glebe House. For travellers approaching from 
either direftion and destined for Newport, the route diverged 
from the Post Road, at this point, and ran easterly across Nar- 
row River and over Boston Neck towards the South Ferry. 
What is now one of the most unfrequented spots in Rhode 
Island, far from the haunts of modern men, was, hence, at that 
period, the resort of many a passing visitor. Thus it might be 
said that all roads led to Narragansett Reftory. But natural was 
it, then, that clergymen travelling to the Convention at New- 
port, whether from Massachusetts or Connefticut, should tarry 
a little at the Doftor's. This central position of the Glebe par- 
tially accounts, also, for the remarkable flow of local visitors, 
noted in the Diary. 

5 '■^ Mr.Theophilus Morris." 

The Rev. Mr. Morris was a graduate of Dublin College, Ire- 
land, and was appointed by the S. P. G., in 1740, an itinerant 
missionary in Connefticut, continuing until 1743 at West 
Haven, Waterbury, Derby and contiguous places. After an un- 
fortunate and apparently ill-advised attempt, in the latter year, 
at his introduction into the reftorship of S. James's Church, 
New London, as referred to later in the Diary, Mr. Morris 
was transferred to Delaware, remaining settled at Lewes until 
his death in 1745. 

6 " The Convention." 

Until 1784 New England formed what we should now style 
one diocese, Connefticut, soon followed by Massachusetts, 
being in that year erefted into a separate one. 
This Convention was, therefore, composed of all the New 
England clergy, no mention being made of lay delegates. It 
is thus noticeable that the term Convention, sometimes ob- 
jedled to as an ecclesiastical designation by reason of its politi- 
cal associations, was applied to councils of the Church many 
years before the formation of state and federal governments 
with their trains of conventions, nominating and constitutional. 

7 ''Mr. Checkley." 

John Checkley was born in Boston in 1680 ; and was for many 
years a publisher and bookseller there. He edited, about 1723, 
an edition of Leslie's Short and Easy Method with the Deists 

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which, through a traftate (entitled A Discourse Concerning 
Episcopacy) appended to it, caused him to be tried for libel 
upon the Puritan ministry and sentenced by the Courts. He 
visited England no less than three times to obtain ordination, 
but, owing to the misrepresentations of his enemies, failed in 
his objeft until 1739, when, already in his sixtieth year, he 
was ordained by the Bishop of Exeter. From that date until 
his death in 1754 ^^' Checkley was settled in Providence, as 
reftor of S. John's Church. He was a noted controversialist 
and possessed great skill in the Indian language in use in 
Rhode Island and enjoyed a lengthened acquaintance with 
the natives themselves. 

A biographical sketch of Checkley has lately been prepared by 
the Rev. Edmund F. Slafter, D. D., Registrar of the Diocese 
of Massachusetts, and issued as a volume of the Prince Soci- 
ety's Publications. It is entitled : — John Checkley ; or the Evo- 
lution of Religious Tolerance in Massachusetts Bay. Including 
Mr. Checkley's Controversial Writings; His Letters and Other 
Papers ; His Presentment on the Charge of a Libel for Publish- 
ing a Book; His Speech at His Trial; the Hon. John Read's 
Plea in Arrest of Judgment; and a Bibliography of the Great 
Controversy on Episcopacy by the Ministers of the Standing Or- 
der and the Clergy of the Church of England. 17 19-1774. With 
Historical Illustrations and a Memoir. It is a monument of 
painstaking research. 
" Commissary. ^^ 

For the regulation and increase of religion in America the 
Bishop of London, deriving his authority from an order of 
Charles II., appointed as his commissaries, before the close of 
the seventeenth century, the Rev. James Blair to Virginia, 
about 1690, and the Rev. Dr. Thomas Bray to Maryland, in 
1696. See Classified Digest of the Records of the S. P. G. Lon- 
don, 1895. p. 2. It is on record that Commissary Bray sent a 
nucleus of a parochial library to Rhode Island in 1700. While 
Dodlor MacSparran does not mention the name of the commis- 
sary having jurisdiftion in Rhode Island at the period of this 
entry, it was probably Commissary Garden, from whom he notes 
the reception of a letter at a later date and who in 1 743 opened a 
training-school for negro teachers at Charleston, South Carolina. 

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g " Conanicut." 

This island, lying direftly between Narragansett and Newport, 
was frequently visited by Doftor MacSparran. In the Narra- 
gansett Church Register, August 4, 1741, it is recorded, "Pur- 
suant to a request made in writing by sundry gentlemen of 
Jamestown, alias Conanicut, to the ReV^- Dr. MacSparran, the 
said Doftor preached at Capt. Josiah Arnold's House." There 
does not appear to have been any church building or any regu- 
lar congregation upon Conanicut during the Doftor's life. Ser- 
vices were frequently held by him there, at the residence of 
John Martin, Esq., and sometimes at that of the above men- 
tioned Mr. Arnold, a brother-in-law of Mrs. MacSparran. 

10 '•''Went to Colonel Updike s^ 

Daniel Updike was born about the end of the seventeenth cen- 
tury, and died in 1757. His grandfather, Gysbert op Dyck, of 
Wesel, Westphalia (where the family originated about 1297), 
married Katharine, daughter of Richard Smith, the first white 
settler of Narragansett, and a relative of John Smyth, of North 
Nibley, near Berkeley, Gloucestershire, England. Daniel Up- 
dike's father, Lodowick, married his cousin, Abigail (Smith) 
Newton. It was through these two marriages that the Richard 
Smith estate came into the hands of the Updike family. Colonel 
Updike's house "Cocumscussuc," sometimes called "Smith's 
Castle," was at the head of the North Cove, in what is now 
known as Wickford, in North Kingstown, and is still stand- 
ing. Daniel Updike was carefully educated by tutors at home, 
and, after his education was finished, spent some time in Barba- 
does. Upon his return he studied law, living principally in New- 
port. From 1 72 2-3 2, and from 1743-57, he was Attorney Gen- 
eral of the colony. In 1729 he was a member of the committee 
appointed to revise the laws of the colony, and in 1730 was 
made Lieutenant Colonel. He was one of the founders of the 
literary society later known as the Redwood Library, of New- 
port, and was an intimate friend of George Berkeley, then Dean 
of Derry, afterward Bishop of Cloyne. The latter, on his de- 
parture for England, presented Mr. Updike with an ancient 
silver flagon, which is still an heirloom in the Updike family. 
In 1740 Mr. Updike was appointed to determine the bounda- 

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ries between Rhode Island and Massachusetts, and also served in 
other similar commissions. He married, in 1 716, Sarah, daugh- 
ter of Benedidt and Sarah (Mumford) Arnold; second, in 1722, 
Anstis, daughter of Richard and Mary (Wilkins) Jenkins ; and, 
third, in 1745, Mary, widow of Governor William Wanton, 
and daughter of John and Elizabeth (Carr) Godfrey, He was 
baptized by immersion, by Doftor MacSparran, in 1730 ; and 
was, without question, the leading layman in the Narragansett 
Church at the period covered by the Diary. His son, Lodo- 
wick, married Abigail Gardiner, niece of Mrs. MacSparran. 
1 1 « Coeset Church." 

This church, at which Dr. MacSparran was accustomed to hold 
monthly services, stood upon the Warwick shore about a mile 
and a half north of East Greenwich. It was first erefted for the 
use of Trinity Parish, Newport, and was removed to Coeset in 
or about 1726. The land upon which it was set up was con- 
veyed to the S. P. G. by the Rev. George Pigot, out of land 
belonging to his wife, he having a residence upon a large farm 
a mile and a half to the southwest, the ruins of the house 
being still visible. See Updike's History of the Narragansett 
C/'arr^ New York. 1847. p. 370. About 1764, the congregation, 
after Dr. MacSparran 's death in 1757, having dwindled away, 
this church was again taken down to be re-ere£led at Old 
Warwick Cove, but a gale arising, the timbers, which were 
in process of being floated across, were scattered and never 
reassembled. Traces of a number of graves in the former 
churchyard may still be discerned near the present Cowesett 
railway station. A set of fine service books, presented to the 
ancient Warwick Church by the Bishop of London in 1750* 
was, for more than a century, piously preserved by a private 
family and placed upon the altar of S. Mary's Chapel, War- 
wick Neck, upon its consecration in 1880, where the vener- 
able volumes still remain. At the time of the demolition of 
the Coeset Church the opinion was expressed that there was 
plainly no demand for the Church of England in the town of 
Warwick. Within the past eighteen years (1898), however, 
four Episcopal churches have been consecrated inside the 
borders of this town and two or three others, largely attended 
by Warwick people, just outside its limits. Warwick Church 

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is first mentioned, in the Narragansett Parish Register, on 
August 14, 1737. 

12 ''At S. Paurs." 

The Narragansett Church of S. Paul, erefted in 1707, in the 
southern part of North Kingstown, about five miles below 
Wickford, stood upon the spot now marked by a monument 
to Dr. MacSparran set up by the Diocese of Rhode Island in 
1868. The ancient strufture was removed in 1800 to the 
village of Wickford, where, although superseded by a newer 
parish church, it still stands in good preservation, being used 
every summer for Divine Service. 

13 ''Miller Major Stafford^ 

This was Samuel Stafford (born September 24, 1692), a son 
of Amos and a descendant, in the third degree, of Thomas 
Stafford who settled in Warwick in 1652. Thomas Stafford, 
about 1626, emigrated from Warwickshire, England, to Ply- 
mouth, New England, where he built the first grist-mill, run 
by water. It is claimed by a descendant that later he removed 
to Providence, where he erefled the first grist-mill in Rhode 
Island, near Mill Bridge, at the North End. After his settle- 
ment at Old Warwick, he built a grist-mill for the Shawomet 
settlers(lVlajor Samuel Stafford, therefore, inherited the busi- 
Pness of "miller" from his ancestor. — Updike's Hist, of Nar- 
ragansett Church, p. 375. 

14 "Mr. Francis" 

Abraham Francis, of Old Warwick and previously of Boston, 
was said to have been an heir of most of the territory of that 
city, without being so fortunate, however, as ever to enter 
upon its possession. He married Ann Phillis (or Anphillis), a 
daughter of Moses Lippet of Old Warwick. Dr. MacSparran 
appears to have held Mr. Francis in unusually high esteem 
and frequently held services at his house. — Updike's Hist, of 
Narragansett Church, p. 372. 

15 "Bro' J no'." 

John Gardiner, eldest son of William Gardiner of Boston Neck 
and a brother of Mrs. MacSparran and Dr. Silvester Gardiner, 
was born in 1696 and died in 1770. His life was spent upon the 
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five hundred acres and reputed the most fertile land in Nar- 
ragansett.The ancient Gardiner house is still standing, occupy- 
ing a commanding position, not far from the South Ferry. John 
Gardiner was first married to Mary Hill, who died in I739,leav- 
ing several children, and then to Mary Taylor, a niece of Fran- 
cis Willet, Esq. Mrs. Rowland Robinson, the mother of the 
lady styled, in the chronicles of the countryside, the "Un- 
fortunate Hannah Robinson," Amos Gardiner, the builder of 
the "Four Chimney House," in Boston Neck, and Mrs. Lodo- 
wick Updike, a progenitor of the best known branch of the 
Updike family, were among John Gardiner's ten children. He 
was, in many respefts, highly esteemed by his brother-in-law, 
the Dodlor, near whose monument he lies buried in the Nar- 
ragansett churchyard. — Updike's Hist, of Narragansett 
Church, pp. 125, 330. 
16 ^'^ George Hazard^ s wife." 

George Hazard of Boston Neck was a son of Thomas (known, 
at that time, as "Old Thomas Hazard," See Note 88) and Su- 
sannah Hazard, having been born January 18, 1699. He was 
a great-grandson of Thomas Hazard, the originator of the Haz- 
ard family in Rhode Island, who emigrated from England or 
Wales and settled in Portsmouth, Rhode Island, in 1638 or 
1639. See Thomas R. Hazard's Recolle£lions of Olden Times, 
pp. 181-184, 201. 

The children of George Hazard and his wife Mary, to whom 
he was married November 17, 172 1, were Benjamin, Simeon, 
Mary, George, Susannah, Enoch and Thomas G. George 
Hazard was a brother of Robert (the great-grandfather of the 
well-known Thomas R., "Shepherd Tom," and Rowland G. 
Hazard) and a first cousin of George Hazard, Deputy Gov- 
ernor of Rhode Island, the ancestor of the late Edward H. 
Hazard of Wakefield. 

"Old Thomas Hazard" was the possessor of the six southern 
farms on Boston Neck, which he divided among four of his 
sons, the two farms nearest the end of the Neck falling to 
George, one of them being still occupied by his lineal descend- 
ant, Thomas G. Hazard. The point at which Mr. Hazard car- 
ried the Doftor across the Narrow River, in a canoe, was near 
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Neck, the residence of Mrs. Robinson. It is a curious example 
of the changes wrought by a century and a half that an eleftric 
railway now (1898) spans the river at about the point where 
the Dodlor was ferried over in a canoe. The Doftor was fre- 
quently, as in this case, called to give medical or surgical advice 
to the sick, 

17" The Narrow River. *^ 

The arm of the sea extending north and south, for several 
miles, in front of Dodlor MacSparran's house, and spreading 
out into a charming lake towards the northeast. The river 
separates MacSparran Hill and Tower Hill from Boston Neck, 
the residence of many of the chief parishioners of the Doftor, 
and forms one of the most prominent features in the pros- 
peft from the Glebe House. It used to be, also, a praftical 
facElor in its every-day life, wood and hay being often floated 
across it. 

18 ''Sister Robinson." 

Abigail Gardiner, a daughter of William Gardiner of Boston 

Neck, and a sister of Mrs, MacSparran, first married Caleb 
Hazard (born November 24, 1697), a brother of Deputy 
Governor George Hazard. Caleb Hazard died leaving three 
sons. Mrs. Hazard subsequently married Deputy Governor 
William Robinson (born January 26, 1693), by whom she had 
several children. Gov, Robinson's farm, at the time of this 
visit of Dr. MacSparran, included Little Neck, between Nar- 
ragansett Pier Beach and Pettaquamscutt Cove, and extended 
southward beyond the present Hazard Castle and westward to 
Sugar Loaf Hill, thus embracing the territory now covered by 
Narragansett Pier and a part of Wakefield. Governor Robin- 
son built three houses, the one in which he is believed to 
have been living, at this date, being the nucleus of "Canon- 
chet," the present residence of Governor William Sprague. 
— Updike's Hist, of Narragansett Church, p. 179. Hazard's 
RecolleSlions of Olden Times, p. 118, 

19 ''Her former Esteem of y^ Sacraments." 

Gov. Robinson was a Quaker and Dr. MacSparran here ap- 
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married to him above sixteen years, had been somewhat influ- 
enced by his opinions concerning outward ordinances. 

20 "-My Wifer 

Mrs. MacSparran, as is more fully noted in the accompanying 
biographical sketch of her husband, was Hannah, a daughter 
of William Gardiner of Boston Neck, and was married at the 
age of seventeen, to Mr. MacSparran, by the Rev. James 
Honyman of Newport, May 22, 1722. She is said to have 
been a very handsome woman. Her portrait, painted by Smi- 
bert, is now in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. 

21" Rowland Robinson and his wife.^'' 

Mr. Robinson was the eldest son of Gov. William Robinson 
(Note 18), by his first wife, Martha Potter, and was, like his 
father, a Quaker. About eighteen months previously to this 
entry he had married Anstis, a daughter of John Gardiner, 
brother of Mrs. MacSparran. Their residence was the well- 
known house (still bearing their name and standing in Boston 
Neck, just south of the line separating North and South Kings- 
town,) so frequently visited on account of its association with 
the beautiful and unfortunate Hannah Robinson spoken of 
below. The youngest of their three children, William, mar- 
ried Miss Ann Scott, of Newport, where he took up his resi- 
dence ; being, for several years, senior Warden of Trinity 
Church and dying without issue. The second, Mary, died 
unmarried. The eldest, Hannah, was the heroine of a ro- 
mance described at length in Hazard's RecolleSfions of Olden 
Times. Rowland Robinson was, naturally, harsh and unyield- 
ing, but, not without good reason, opposed his daughter's 
marriage to the man of her choice, Peter Simons, a gay and 
unprincipled young music-master of Newport, much below 
her in social position. When Mrs. Robinson and other rela- 
tives and friends yielded a reluftant assent, influenced by the 
pitiful constancy of the young girl to her lover, her father re- 
mained inexorable. The affair ended in an elopement and 
secret marriage, soon followed, on the part of the volatile hus- 
band, by praftical desertion and by the decline and early death 
of the ill-starred wife. The window at which Hannah used 
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vvine-closct in which he was once, upon the unexpedled re- 
turn of the father, hurriedly hidden, are still pointed out to 
the curious pilgrim. A path, worn by many feet, leads from 
the house to the grave of this vidlim of misplaced affeftion. 
The Robinson house is otherwise of interest, by reason of 
its carved staircase of maple, its quaint buffet in the corner 
of the parlour, its fresco of a hunting scene over one of its 
mantles, its Dutch fire-place tiles, its ancient mounting-block 
telling of the days of the famous Narragansett pacers, and its 
tradition that here Lafayette once tarried for a night. It be- 
longs to the estate of the late Mr. Rowland Hazard, of Peace- 
dale, the great-grandnephewof Rowland Robinson. — Updike's 
Hist, of Narragansett Church, pp. 1 88-19 1. 

22 "Afy tropick Bird" 

Probably a horse, again referred to in this Diary at the time 
of its sale. The homeward course of the Robinsons lay in the 
same direflion as the Glebe House, making it convenient for 
Mr. Robinson to take the "tropick Bird" home with him, 
for pasturage. They must have journeyed together until reach- 
ing the Ferry Road, where the Doftor turned westward to- 
wards Narrow River and the bridge or ferry just below the 
Parsonage. A new bridge was built shortly after this date, but 
it is possible that there had been a previous one, as the Doftor 
never speaks of using a boat in crossing to and from Boston 
Neck. (Note 144.) When, however, the Ferry Road across Bos- 
ton Neck was laid out and given by the brothers John and 
Jeremiah Smith, in 1716, it was said to be "very commodi- 
ous . . . for travellers passing ixctm. ferry to ferry" 

23 "-Stepney." 

A faithful man-servant belonging to Dodor MacSparran, 
drowned, a year or two later, in Narrow River. Under the 
date "June y* 6'*^ 1736," it is recorded in the Narragansett 
Parish Register, "Stepney, a negro Boy, was baptized by his 
Master, Mr. MacSparran." In the same Register we read that 
on April 26th, 1748, "Phillis, daughter of Negro Moll, was 
baptized by y'= Doctor, before he sold her to Daniel Dennison." 
Slavery was, in those days, a marked institution of Narragan- 
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planters as well as to the aristocratic atmosphere of the region, 
the number of negroes on many estates, as, for example, that 
of George Rome, Esq., a little later, being very great. In the 
basement of the Rome mansion, on one side of the kitchen, 
with its vast fire-place, where his famous dinners were wont 
to be roasted, baked and boiled, there were to be seen, until 
the recent demolishment of the house, a group of tiny white- 
washed bedrooms where a part of his numerous retinue of 
slaves was lodged. A range of negro quarters was formerly at- 
tached to the eastern end of the Rowland Robinson house, 
also; making its total length, originally, one hundred feet. 
Many of the coloured citizens of southern Rhode Island still 
bear the names (such as Hazard, Fry and Rome) of the fami- 
lies to which their progenitors belonged. 
24 " Captain Ji/my." 

The mother of Mrs. MacSparran, Mrs. William Gardiner 
(Mr. Gardiner having died in 1732), married, in 1740, Capt. 
Job Almy (born October 10, 1675), a merchant of Newport.*^ 
Soon after Captain Almy's death, December 2, 1743, Mrs. 
Almy appears to have removed to Narragansett, as she was 
evidently residing in Boston Neck during the latter years cov- 
ered by this Diary. The Do6lor's uniform spelling Ailniy 
points to the well-known pronunciation prevailing among old- 
fashioned people almost to the present day. Parson Fayerwea- 
ther, Doftor MacSparran 's successor, guided apparently by his 
ear alone, always, in the Parish Records, spelt the name Amy. 
Mrs. Almy lingered on until extreme age, not dying until 
1763 ; although so old as to have been married, the first time, 
not later than 1695; her eldest son, John Gardiner, having been 
born July 8, 1696. Mr. Fayerweather rather quaintly records 
that, on January 15, 1763, he "was called on to visit old Mrs. 
Amy," that "divers times he had visited and prayed with her," 
that "during her whole illness she expressed an entire Resig- 
nation to God's Holy Will and pleasure, and through God's 
help, it was hoped, she made a good End" and that, on Febru- 
ary 8th, of the same year, he preached a funeral sermon over 
her, "the corpse being carried into church, and the number 
present were sixty people, who behaved gravely and solemnly." 
The very frequent mention, in this Diary, of visits between 

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Mrs, MacSparran and her mother and their evidently excep- 
tional mutual afFedlion emphasize the great loss of Mrs. Almy, 
when in 1754, nine years before her own death, her daugh- 
ter went to England, never to return. 
25 ^^ Sugar . . . at jCg per ct^"* 

Dr. MacSparran's references to prices, where sterling is not 
specifically stated, relate to the greatly depreciated paper cur- 
rency of that period. Prices thus appear severalfold larger than 
they were in English coin. At "j^g per ct," the price of 
sugar would be the apparently extravagant sum of 19 2-7 
pence, or 38 cents, per lb. 

The depreciation of the currency was progressive for many 
years, making it very difficult to state its degree at a particu- 
lar date. The question is also complicated by the distinftion 
between "old tenor" and "new tenor," the former referring 
to all Rhode Island issues previous to 1740, and the latter to 
subsequent ones. "Old tenor" notes were merely "fiat "money, 
expressing so many pounds, shillings, or pence, but, being ir- 
redeemable, they naturally diminished rapidly in purchasing 
power. The value of "new tenor" notes the General As- 
sembly attempted to fix in gold or silver coin. See Rhode Island 
Historical Traft, No. 8, Colonial Paper Currency, p. 53. In 
1740, three years previously to the present entry, the com> 
parative values of "old tenor" and "new" (the latter, then, 
being probably equal to specie,) were as one to four. By 1749 
the ratio of "old tenor" to sterling was one to eleven. In 1755 
the Vestry of Trinity Church, Newport, voted "that Mr. 
Pollen should be paid his salary at the rate of sixteen hundred 
pounds, 'old tenor,' for one hundred sterling." — Mason's 
History of Trinity Church, p. 114. In 1764 the current value 
of "old tenor" was jj^i for fj, a ratio of about one to thirty^ 
four. — Updike's Hist, of the Narragansett Church, p. 136. 
By 1786, when a penalty was incurred by all who refused to 
receive "old tenor " notes at their face value, amusing instances 
are narrated of creditors leaping from the rear windows of their 
houses or hiding in attics to elude payment, in that currency, 
by their debtors. To conclude that the Doflor's sugar cost him, 
in paper, five to six-fold what it would have done in sterling 
is not unreasonable. Two years later, July 19, 1745, the value 

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of the currency had so much farther depreciated that the price 
paid for sugar was at the rate of nearly ,^15 per cwt., instead 
of ;^9' as in 1743. 

26 «5;7/y Hazard." 

The children of Mrs. MacSparran's sister Abigail by her first 
husband, Caleb Hazard, were William, Caleb and Robert, and 
they appear to have been still living with their mother, at the 
house of her second husband. Governor Robinson. The eldest 
is the "Billy Hazard," who here accompanied his aunt to the 
Glebe House. 

27 ^^ Daniel TVier." 

A worthy young man, who frequently assisted Dr. MacSpar- 
ran in his farm work. A few months later he became a son-in- 
law of the Doctor's highly respedled parishioner, Benjamin 
Mumford, by marrying his daughter Phebe. Mr. Wier served 
as Precentor or Parish Clerk. 

28 ''Harry." 

One of the Doftor's negro slaves, frequently mentioned in the 
Diary. The preceding year he was baptized, by the Doftor, 
as "Harry MacSparran." 

29 " Reaped the wheat." 

Wheat could not, at that date, have been a staple crop in Nar- 
ragansett. Doftor MacSparran, in describing the principal pro- 
du£ls of the Colony of Rhode Island, in America DisseSled, 
does not mention it, enumerating only "butter, cheese, fat 
cattle, wool and fine horses." Dr. Edward Channing, in his re- 
cent study, The Narragansett Planters, (written, in part, to show 
that they were not, striftly, planters at all, in the Virginia 
sense,) correftly asserts, "The Narragansetter's wealth was de- 
rived not so much from the cultivation of any great staple, . . . 
as from the produft of their dairies, their flocks of sheep, and 
their droves of splendid horses, the once famous Narragan- 
sett pacers." Wheat is now almost unknown as a produft of 
Rhode Island. 

30 '■'■Anstis." 

Mrs. Rowland Robinson, nieceof Mrs. MacSparran. (Note 21.) 

31 ''Judge Willet." 

Col. Francis Willet (born June 25, 1693), who was then liv- ix 

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ing in superior style at the Willet mansion in Boston Neck, 
North Kingstown, about a mile north of the South Ferry. 
This house, which, in its day, had been one of the most ele- 
gant in Narragansett, was, by reason of its dilapidation, de- 
molished in 1869, but its site, in the midst of beautiful shade 
trees, is still distinftly traceable. The late Dr. Usher Parsons, 
of Providence, carried away some of the shingles covering one 
side of the house, averring that he was well assured they had 
been in their position nearly two hundred years. The original 
Willet farm, which had been the seat of the great sachem, 
Miantonomo, extended from Narragansett Bay to the Narrow 
River and from the South Ferry one and one-half miles to 
the northward. 

A year or two before this entry, however, three hundred acres 
of the southern portion of the estate had been sold to Gov. 
William Robinson, to be occupied by his son Rowland Rob- 
inson, for the eredlion of his now venerable and noted house. 
Mrs. Robinson was a grand-niece, by marriage, of Squire Willet, 
and the two families were living as neighbours, at the time of 
this visit on both by Dr. and Mrs. MacSparran. The line be- 
tween their farms was the then not long established bound- 
ary line between North and South Kingstown. 
^ Col. Francis Willet was a grandson of Thomas Willet, the first 
Mayor of the city of New York, in 1665, after its surrender 
by the Dutch. The latter died and was buried, in 1674., in 
Swansea, now Barrington, Rhode Island. After the death of 
Colonel Willet, without children, in 1776, the estate passed 
to his favourite nephew and, at least virtually, adopted son, Fran- 
cis Carpenter, and thence to his son Willet, the father of the 
late Rev. James H. Carpenter and the grandfather of the late 
Miss Esther Bernon Carpenter, the author of South County 
Neighbors and several other works. A chapel, as a memorial of 
Miss Carpenter, has just been erefted upon the ancestral farm, 
on a lot given by her during her lifetime. For an account of 
the death of Mrs. Willet, see Narragansett Parish Register, 
April 16 and 18, 1769. 
32 " William Gardiner s oxen." 

Mrs. MacSparran had a brother, William Gardiner, living at 
this time, but as there were several others of that name in 

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the vicinity, known as "Long William," "Great William," 
etc., and, presumably residing nearer the Glebe House, it is 
probable that this is one of them. 

A female negro servant or slave of Dr. MacSparran, frequently 
mentioned in the Diary and in the Narragansett Parish Regis- 
ter. 

34 "J/r. Robinson's" 

Probably Gov. William Robinson, rather than his son Row- 
land. 

35 '■'■Mr. Seabury." 

The Rev. Samuel Seabury, father of the first Bishop of Con- 
nefticut and Rhode Island. Mr. Seabury was born at Groton, 
Connefticut, July 8, 1706, and graduated at Harvard College 
in 1724. He was first settled, as a Congregational minister, in 
his native town. Having embraced the faith and order of the 
Church of England, he was ordained by the Bishop of Lon- 
don in 1730 and immediately appointed, by the Venerable 
Society, the first missionary at S. James's Church, New Lon- 
don, Connefticut. There he remained for twelve years, having 
been, the year before the present entry, transferred to Hemp- 
stead, Long Island, where he continued until his death in 
1764. The first wife of Mr. Seabury and the mother of the 
Bishop, was Abigail, daughter of Thomas Mumford of North 
Groton and first cousin of Mrs. MacSparran, their mothers 
being sisters, named Remington. On account of this family 
conneftion, Mr. Seabury early became intimate with Mr. 
MacSparran and it is recorded that it was largely through the 
influence and enlightenment of the latter that he became a 
Churchman. This fa6l, in its relation to the first introduftion 
of the Episcopate into America, forms one of Dr. MacSpar- 
ran's chief claims to general remembrance. To him, likewise, 
belongs the credit of having begun, by occasional visits at New 
London, the important church, of which Mr. Seabury became 
the earliest regular minister. The first wife of the Rev. Sam- 
uel Seabury having died in 1 73 1, he was married, two years 
later, by Dr. MacSparran, to Elizabeth, daughter of Adam 
Powell (a merchant, of Newport, and a warden of Trinity 
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He was thus brought into association with her relatives, the 
Helmes of Narragansett. Mrs. Seabury survived her husband 
more than thirty years. "Few better men have lived than Mr. 
Seabury," testifies Mr. Updike. The "Seabury Memorial 
Chapel," at Groton, perpetuates the memory of the origin of 
the family in that town. 

36 "i^r. Stewart" 

Matthew Stewart, of New London, whose wife, Abigail, was 
the niece of Mrs. MacSparran, being the daughter of her 
brother, William Gardiner, of Narragansett, Mr. Stewart was 
an emigrant from Ireland. This letter of his plainly contained 
information unfavourable to the settlement of Mr. Morris in 
New London. There was, apparently, no connexion between 
Mr. Matthew Stewart and Dr. MacSparran's parishioner at a 
later date, Gilbert Stewart (or Stuart), the Scotchman, the 
father of the painter of the same name. 

37 ^^ Endless Calumny." 

With all the wise and magnanimous qualities of Dr. Mac- 
Sparran, it cannot but be recognized that he possessed a some- 
what sensitive nature, leading to frequent perturbations of 
mind, such as, with a more trustful temperament, he might, 
perhaps, have largely escaped. 

38 ^^ My poor Bro'- Arnold" 

Mrs. MacSparran's sister, Lydia Gardiner, married Capt. Jo- 
siah Arnold, of Jamestown, in 1724, dying in childbirth about 
two years after, at the age of less than twenty-one. It was at 
Capt. Arnold's house that the Doftor began to hold services 
on Conanicut Island, in 1741. The apparently unhappy cir- 
cumstances here alluded to are now forgotten. Josiah Arnold 
V was a grandson of Gov. Benedift Arnold, whose seal, lettered 
B. A., and bearing an anchor surmounted by the word Hope, 
is in the cabinet of the Rhode Island Historical Society. 

39 " T* poor^ benighted Island" 
Conanicut. 

40 ''Mr. G'lbbs." 

William Gibbs, of Newport, graduated at Harvard College 
and was ordained by the Bishop of London to both the diac- 
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viz., 1744. He was settled, the same year, at Simsbury, Con- 
nefticut. He died in 1776, having been for more than twelve 
years incapacitated for duty by a disordered mind. It is not un- 
likely that William Gibbs was a nephew of Mrs. MacSpar- 
ran's sister-in-law, Mrs. William Gardiner, who was Elizabeth, 
daughter of William Gibbs of Newport. Such a connexion 
would help to explain the manifestly deep interest the Doftor 
evinced in the young man, whom he styles, familiarly, "Billy 
Gibbs." 

41 ^*' I catechized y' Negros." 

Dr. MacSparran devoted himself most earnestly to the welfare 
of the negro and Indian slaves, owned in his parish. In 1741, 
it is recorded, in the Register of S. Paul's, that on one occa- 
sion he catechized "near about or more than one hundred" 
negroes. At this period South Kingstown, the Doftor's resi- 
dence, contained more negroes than any other Rhode Island 
town except Newport. In 1748 the whole population of the 
colony was 32,733, of whom 3,077 were negroes. In 1780 
45 per cent of all the slaves in Rhode Island, outside of 
Newport, were to be found in North and South Kingstown. 
After March l, 1784, all children that should be born of 
slaves, were, by law, declared free, so that, without any formal 
abolition of slavery, it died out naturally in the middle of the 
present century, there being but seventeen bondmen remain- 
ing in 1830. The earth in the lower and eastern portion of the 
old Narragansett churchyard still undulates with the name- 
less graves of the slaves, whose masters slumber in the upper 
part, and there, under the same turf. Dr. MacSparran and his 
coloured catechumens. Stepney and Cujo and Emblo and 
Phillis, lie awaiting the resurreftion morning. 

42 "Afn. Patty Updike" 

Miss Martha was a sister of Col. Daniel Updike. Their father, 
Capt. Lodowick Updike, died about 1736 leaving, in addition 
to his well-known son, five daughters. Of these Sarah married 
Dr. Giles Goddard, of New London, the grandfather of the 
late Prof. William G. Goddard, of Providence. Martha, the 
one mentioned in the text as "Mrs. Patty," died single at an 
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prefix "Mrs.," as a term of respedt, to unmarried ladies, a 
notable instance being "Mrs. Hannah More." Mrs. Mac- 
Sparran is called in the Parish Register, at the time of her 
marriage, when she was only seventeen years of age, "Mrs. 
Hannah Gardiner," and Mrs. Goddard is styled, before her 
marriage, "Mrs. Sarah Updike." 

43 " Walked to church" 

The site of the church, at that date, was at least three miles 
from the Glebe House. This speaks well for the vigour of 
Miss Patty and probably of most of the other ladies of her 
day. 

44 '■^Mr. Mumfordy 

Probably Mr. Thomas Mumford (born April i, 1687), of 
Groton, Connefticut, uncle, by marriage, of Mrs. MacSpar- 
ran. (Note 35.) Thomas Mumford was the eldest brother of 
Benjamin. (Note 53.) 

45 "£>r. Hooper." 

Dr. Henry Hooper, of Newport, was a surgeon on board a 
privateer, in the French War. He was married at Newport, 
in 17 16, to Mrs. Remembrance Perkins and had a son Henry, 
also a physician, who died in 1745, aged twenty-nine. Dr. 
Hooper, the elder, died February 17, 1757, at the age of 
seventy. 

46 ''A Scotch DoSiorr 

Probably Dr. Thomas Moffat of Newport, who was a Scotch- 
man. The fadl that Doftor MacSparran designated him only 
as "a Scotch Doftor," without naming him, implies that he 
was a stranger and came as a companion of Doftor Hooper. 
He had probably recently settled in this country. Mr. Updike 
{History of Narragansett Churchy p. 252) informs us that Doc- 
tor Moffat's dress and manners were so unfitted to the plain- 
ness of Rhode Island Quakers that he could not make his way 
as a praftitioner in Newport. Looking around for some other 
genteel mode of subsistence, he hit upon cultivating tobacco 
and making snuff and, finally, selefted, for his mill-seat, the 
stream which empties into the head of the Narrow River, 
within sight of the Glebe House. Not being able to find a 
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mill, he sent to Scotland for Gilbert Stuart to do the work. 
This was the Gilbert Stuart, whose son, of the same name, 
was born in the mill and baptized by Dodlor MacSparran in 
1756, to become the painter of portraits of Sir Joshua Rey- 
nolds and General Washington. If the surmise be correfl that 
the "Scotch Doftor" was Doftor Moffat and that he was al- 
ready prospefting for a site for his new enterprise, this first 
visit of his to Narragansett, taken in connexion with the sig- 
nal distinction which it was indireftly the means of ultimately 
conferring on the spot, becomes an incident of interest and im- 
portance. What lends more probability to the identity of Doc- 
tor Moffat with the visitor at the Glebe House is the fa£l 
that, among more than a score of physicians mentioned by 
Mr. Mason in the Annals of Trinity Church, Newport, only he 
and one other are designated as Scotch, and that other. Dr. 
William Hunter, is especially asserted not to have come to 
America until 1752, nine years after the present date. It must 
have taken some years to perfeft the plan for the new manufac- 
ture and to bring over Mr. Stuart from Scotland and, accord- 
ingly, we find, among the Land Title Records of North Kings- 
town, the entry, in 175 1, "Edward Cole of Newport, Thomas 
Moffitt, M.D., of Newport, and Gilbert Stuart of North Kings- 
town, enter into articles of copartnership to manufafture snuff 
and to ereft a mill at Pettaquamscutt." At a later date Doftor 
Moffat accepted office under the Stamp Aft, in 1765, and was, 
in consequence, with three others, burnt in effigy, by an ungov- 
ernable mob, in front of the Court House in Newport. On the 
day following, the houses of these unpopular office-holders were 
rifled and they themselves forced toseekproteftion on board the 
" Cygnet " sloop-of-war, lying in the harbour. — Mason's Annals 
of Trinity Church, Newport, p. 91. — On the i6th and 17th of 
Oftober, 175 1, Doftor MacSparran records a visit from Doftor 
Moffat, by name, he then having become well known. 
47 *' T' young Squire.''^ 

Lodowick Updike, the only son of Col. Daniel Updike, was, 
at this time, just eighteen years of age, having been born 
July 12, 1725. He was educated under private tutors, in ac- 
cordance with the custom of the time. His latest instruftor 
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scholar and Reftor of King's Church, now S. John's, Provi- 
dence. Familiarity with his father's large and scholarly library 
must have enhanced the culture of the ingenuous "young 
Squire." Mr. Updike studied for the bar, but never prac- 
tised. He married, somewhat towards middle life, Abigail 
Gardiner, a daughter of John Gardiner, of Boston Neck, and 
a niece of Mrs. MacSparran, with whom, as the "little Nabby " 
of this Diary, she was, evidently, a great favourite. 
Mr. Updike left eleven children, most of whom lived to ex- 
treme old age ; Daniel Updike, of East Greenwich, being the 
eldest and Wilkins Updike, of Kingston, the youngest. The 
death of Lodowick Updike occurred on June 6, 1804. He re- 
collefted his father's taking him to Trinity Church, Newport, 
to listen to the preaching of Dean Berkeley, at, of course, a very 
early age ; since he was only six when the Dean, afterwards 
Bishop, is believed to have returned to England. 

48 " Gave him some d'lreSfions.^^ 

It thus appears that it was as a physician of the body as well 
as of the soul, if not chiefly the former, that, at this time, "y* 
young Squire " sent for Doftor MacSparran. 

49 " Called at Esqr. Mumford's." 

Mr. Joseph Mumford (born September 17, 1691) was Justice 
of the Peace in South Kingstown and had a store there. He 
was baptized, in S. Paul's Church, by Dr. MacSparran, on 
December 17, 1727, and, twelve days later, his four sons, 
Stephen, John, Richard and Caleb, were baptized at his house. 
Mr. Mumford was subsequently one of the Church-Wardens of 
S. Paul's. He was a brother of Thomas and Benjamin Mum- 
ford. (Notes 44 and 53.) 

50 ''Mr. Roe:* 

The Rev. Stephen Roe was a settled minister in Boston in 
1743—4. He had been ordained to the diaconate, by the Arch- 
bishop of Tuam, in 1730, and to the priesthood, by the Arch- 
bishop of Dublin, in 1732. From 1737 to 1742 he had been 
settled at S. George's, South Carolina. It was, doubtless, in 
his power to influence some of the well-to-do Churchmen of 
Boston to aid young Mr. Gibbs in his expensive voyage to 
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51 '■^ DoSIor Gardiner" 

Silvester Gardiner, a son of William Gardiner, of Boston Neck, 
and a brother of Mrs. MacSparran, was born in South Kings- 
town, in 1707. The ancient Register of S. Paul's Church re- 
cords how, on May 10, 1722, "Silvester Gardiner, a youth, 
was baptized by Mr. MacSparran," but twelve days before the 
marriage of his older sister, Hannah, to the Redlor. Encour- 
aged by his clerical brother-in-law, young Gardiner studied 
medicine in England and France and returned to Boston an 
accomplished physician and surgeon. By means of his profes- 
sion and of a large establishment for the importation and sale 
of drugs, he accumulated an ample fortune and purchased ex- 
tensive trafts of land on the Kennebec River, where the city 
of Gardiner, named in his honour, now stands. In the Revolu- 
tion, Do6tor Gardiner adhered to the royal cause and tem- 
porarily lost his estates by confiscation. Upon the conclusion 
of the war, he took up his residence in Newport, where he 
continued in the praftice of medicine until his death in 1786, 
when he was interred amidst demonstrations of public sorrow 
and esteem. He was a most liberal patron of religion, con- 
tributing a large glebe and a partial endowment to Christ 
Church, Gardiner, Maine, and exhibiting similar generosity 
to the church in Narragansett. It was, therefore, with the ut- 
most confidence that Doftor MacSparran could appeal to him, 
in behalf of young "Billy Gibbs." — Updike's History of the 
Narragansett Church, pp. 126—128. 

52 ^'■Martin of Newport ." 

James Martin, an Englishman, sometime Warden of Trinity 
Church, Newport, and Clerk of the Vestry. From 1733 to 
the time of his death, in 1746, Mr. Martin was Secretary of 
the Colony. — Mason's Annals of Trinity Church, Newport, p. 65. 

53 '■^Benjamin Mumford." 

Mr. Mumford (born April 10, 1696), with Ann, his wife, was 
a resident of South Kingstown and was among the most staunch 
and valued friends of Dodlor MacSparran, in S. Paul's Parish. 
Few other names appear on the Register as often as theirs, on 
the occasions of the baptism of their numerous children, as well 
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themselves were frequently called upon to aft as sponsors or 
"gossips," in the quaint language of the day. Few other names 
recur as commonly in this Diary, likewise, as those of this wor- 
thy couple. They continued faithful communicants until old 
age. Parson Fayerweather, the Doftor's successor, noting their 
presence at his first Whitsunday celebration of the Eucharist, 
in 1761, and habitually styling the husband "old Mr. Mum- 
ford." He mentions him, as a sponsor, as late as 1768. Peter 
Mumford, one of the sons of Benjamin, was long employed 
by the Doftor, upon his farm, and is frequently referred to in 
the Diary, evidently with the highest confidence and esteem. 

54 '■'■At Mr. Joseph Mumford'' s'' Note 49. 

According to Note 25 Mrs. MacSparran's fan cannot have 
been worth, in coin, more than a couple of shillings. 

55 "J<fr. Honyman.^^ 

The Rev. James Honyman was the first resident missionary 
of the S. P. G. in Rhode Island, where he had charge of 
Trinity Church, Newport, from 1704. to 1750. He was born 
in Scotland and was settled at Jamaica, Long Island, in 1703-4. 
His ministrations in Newportweresingularly faithful,judicious 
and inspired with Christian charity, as well as crowned with 
signal success. His people had been so long guided by his sure 
hand that, at his death, the blow fell with unwonted severity. 
His portrait, by Copley (in the possession of the Updike family), 
taken in gown and bands, represents him as somewhat stout, 
with a countenance grave but benevolent, encompassed by the 
full curling wig of the period. As to the merits of the com- 
plaints here made against Mr. Honyman, by the good Doftor, 
we have no farther light than that thrown upon the case by 
the relative positions of these two very exemplary gentlemen 
and their known dispositions and propensities. (Note 37.) The 
possibility of a misapprehension, on Dr. MacSparran's part, of 
the true sentiments entertained towards him by his reverend 
brother of Newport, is suggested by an extraft, relating to this 
very period and, of course, unknown to the Reftor of Narra- 
gansett, taken from the AbstraSls of the S. P. G., 1742-3-4, 
and quoted in Mason's Annals of Trinity Church, Newport, 
p. 77. "The Rev. Mr. Honyman, by his letter of June 13, 

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1743 [less than seven weeks before this entry], blesses God 
that his church is in a very flourishing and improving condi- 
tion ; . . . while seventy negroes and Indians, with a large 
congregation of our own people, fill the neighbouring church 
of Narragansett, under the care and administration of the Rev. 
Dr. MacSparran." 

56 "C<5/«. Gardens Z,^" 

The Rev. Commissary Garden represented, at this period, the 
Bishop of London, in America. (Note 8.) In the recently is- 
sued Digest of the Records of the S. P. G., London, 1895, it 
is recorded that in this same year, viz., 1743, Commissary 
Garden opened a school at Charleston, South Carolina, with 
the objedl of training the negroes, as instruftors of their coun- 
trymen (what we should now call a Normal School or a Train- 
ing School), two negroes having been already purchased and 
trained as teachers, to make a beginning, at the cost of the 
Society. In the face of many difficulties and obstruftions, this 
school was continued with success for more than twenty 
years, many adult slaves seeking instruftion at it in the even- 
ing. The letter received by Dr. MacSparran was thus, prob- 
ably, sent from Charleston, a supposition otherwise made 
likely by the faft that three weeks were occupied in its trans- 
mission. The Rev. Alexander Garden, sent out by the S. P. G. 
in the following year, viz., 1744, to St. Thomas, South Caro- 
lina, was a nephew of the Commissary. Dr. Alexander Gar- 
den, the distinguished Scottish botanist, for whom the beau- 
tiful and fragrant flower. Gardenia (Cape jasmine), was named 
and who resided many years in Charleston, — becoming, after 
his return to England, a Fellow of the Royal Society, — was, 
undoubtedly, a near relative of these. 

57 ^^Gazzet inclosed.'''' 

Probably an official list of ecclesiastical appointments and pro- 
motions, within the Commissary's jurisdiftion, corresponding 
to the well-known secular gazettes, containing legal and state 
notices. 

58 ''Shaw.'' 

Job Shaw, the saddler, living on or near Tower Hill. 

59 ''Flocks." 

The Doftor almost uniformly spells tailor, as here, Taylor. 

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Flocks, or tailors' shearings of woolen goods, were used for 
filling mattresses and cushions. For explaining the apparently- 
extravagant cost of such an amount of these as one family- 
would have a use for, it is necessary to recall the large deprecia- 
tion of the colonial paper currency. (Note 25.) This £6 could 
not have amounted, in sterling coin, to much more than j^i. 

60 '■^Junt Sherman" 

"Aunt Sherman" was Mrs. Martha Sherman, a sister of Mrs. 
Capt. Almy, — both being members of the Remington family, — 
and thus an aunt of Mrs. MacSparran. Her husband was Eber 
Sherman. 

61 ''Capt. Paine." 

A resident of Conanicut, much interested in the maintenance 
of Church services on the island. On March 13, 1745, "Do£lor 
MacSparran married William Dyer to Mercy (or Marcy) Pain, 
at Mr. John Payne's of Conanicut." (Narragansett Parish 
Register.) 

62 " Te Arch Bp." 

The Archbishop of Canterbury is always, ex officio, the Presi- 
dent of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel. "Ye 
Arch Bp.," to whom Doftor MacSparran wrote "in favour of 
Mr. Gibbs" was John Potter (i 674-1 747), Bishop of Oxford 
from 171 5 to 1737 and Archbishop of Canterbury from the 
latter year, until his death. He was the author of an esteemed 
work on Greek Antiquities, and edited the works of Clem- 
ens Alexandrinus, Lycophron, etc. 

63 ''Bp. Londrr 

In 1634 an order of the king (Charles I) in Council was ob- 
tained by Archbishop Laud for extending the jurisdiftion of 
the Bishop of London, for the time being, to English congre- 
gations and clergy abroad. Forty years, however, passed with- 
out any praftical benefit from the arrangement. About 1675 
Bishop Compton (London) prevailed upon Charles II to re- 
new the order devolving all ecclesiastical jurisdiftion in Brit- 
ish foreign plantations, with certain necessary exceptions, upon 
himself and his successors. — Digest of the S. P. G. Records, 
pp. I, 2, 743. Young Mr. Gibbs was, therefore, legally under 
the control and pastoral charge of the Bishop of London. 

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64 " Capt. Mumfordy 

Capt. Richard Mumford, of Newport (born September 6, 
1698), on his way to Court. Capt. Mumford was a brother of 
Thomas, Joseph and Benjamin (Notes 44., 49, and 53) and 
an aftive member, as well as a Vestryman, of Trinity Parish. 
He took part, as captain of a company, in the expedition for 
the reduftion of Louisburg, at which place he died in Oftober, 
1745. (Note 297.) 

65 " The Western Clergies 

It is a curious question, where the territory of "the Western 
Clergie" was, in 1743, to be found. The missionary stations 
at Albany and Scheneftady appear to have been those nearest 
the Western frontier, at that date. Probably, however, the na- 
tive New England clergy are those alluded to here as "the 
Western Clergie." (Note 228.) 

66 '' Court r 

The court of the South County of Rhode Island was then held 
on "Tower Hill" rather than at "Little Rest," as at a later 
date. "Dec. 3^''- 1746, Dr. MacSparran preached at the County 
House, 'Tower Hill.'" (Narragansett Parish Register.) The 
proximity of the Glebe House to "Tower Hill" led many 
gentlemen, attending the court, to lodge or dine at the Doc- 
tor's. 

67 ^''Seabury simple ^ 

The Rev. Samuel Seabury, who had been settled at New Lon- 
don for twelve years (Note 35), had, in the previous year, 1742, 
been transferred to Hempstead, Long Island. On his return 
from his visit, of a week or two previous, at Newport, he 
appears to have tarried at New London and officiated for his 
former parishioners, thus countenancing, as the Doftor im- 
plies, their violent conduft towards Mr. Morris and incurring 
his disapproval. 

68 ''Col. Coddingtonr 

Col. William Coddington, of Newport and Narragansett, was a 
grandson of Gov. William Coddington, who emigrated to Bos- 
ton in 1630, subsequently removing to Newport and assisting 
to form the first settlement there. The Colonel was born July 
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1739, when he removed to Narrangansett. (Updike's Hist, of 
Narragansett Church, p. 164.) How long he continued there is 
not known, but this entry and the one of the day following, as 
well as that of Oftober 20th succeeding, might seem to imply 
that he had resumed his residence at Newport before 1743. 
It is certain that he had done so by 1746. His first wife was 
Content Arnold, a granddaughter of Gov, Benedift Arnold, 
and his second, Jean, a daughter of Gabriel Bernon. The 
statement of Mr. Updike, in the Hist, of Narragansett Church, 
p. 1 6 5, and of Mr. Mason, in the Annals of Trinity Church, New- 
port, p. 38, that Col. Coddington was killed by an explosion of 
gunpowder, in 1744, is shown to be an error by later entries 
in this Diary (Note 157), as well as by the faft that his name 
continues to recur, in the Register of Trinity Church, until 
1753. Col. Coddington was a gentleman of marked elevation 
of charafter, well-educated and accomplished, and was univer- 
sally respefted, being long a member of the Vestry of Trinity 
Church and, also, for a time, in 1741, a Warden of S. Paul's, 
Narragansett. 

69 " At James Helme''5" 

Mr. Helme (born May 7, 17 10) resided on Tower Hill, be- 
ing descended from some of the earliest settlers of Narragan- 
sett. In 1767 he was eledled Chief Justice of the Supreme 
Court of Rhode Island, to which office he was repeatedly re- 
elefted. He possessed manners mild and urbane, was a sound 
lawyer and a man of preeminently social disposition. Judge 
Helme married Esther Powell, a granddaughter of Gabriel 
Bernon and a sister of the second Mrs. Samuel Seabury. He 
was thus nephew, by marriage, of his guest. Col. Coddington. 
Judge Helme's amiability and probity are exhibited in a 
pleasant light in his correspondence with his sister-in-law, 
Mrs. Seabury, after she was left a widow, as printed in Up- 
dike's History of the Narragansett Church," pp. 134-138, also 
pp. 166 and 167. 

70 " To Town." 

"Town" was then Newport, a place more accessible from 
Narragansett than Providence and one of, apparently, at that 
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71 ''Gibbs' Packet r 

The package of letters, no doubt, which he wrote, a few days 
before, for Mr. Gibbs to take with him to London, where he 
was ordained a few months later. 

72 ''Mrs. CoUr 

Mrs. Elizabeth (Dexter) Cole (born 1684), was the widow of 
Elisha Cole, Esq., who had died in London in 1728 or 1729, 
and was one of the staunchest friends and supporters of Doc- 
tor MacSparran. Much of the land of the upper part of Boston 
Neck belonged to the Cole family, the site of the birthplace 
of Gilbert Stuart being upon it. There still exists there an 
ancient burial-place called by their name. The Parish Regis- 
ter of Narragansett contains a record of the baptism, by Mr. 
MacSparran, in 1725, of Mrs. Cole and her six children, the 
youngest being Abigail, the "Daughter Naby" of the present 
entry. Later on it is recorded, in Doftor MacSparran's hand- 
writing, that, on Oftober 16, 1756, "Being wrote to and ear- 
nestly intreated to go to Newport for y^ purpose, I preached a 
Funeral Sermon for and on occasion of y^ Death of Mrs. Eliza- 
beth Cole, widow and relift of y* late Elisha Cole, Esq'., who 
died many years ago in London, and buried her in y^ Burying 
Ground at Newport. She was a good woman and a particular 
friend of me, y^ Subscriber, and she, her Husband, & Family 
were baptized by me." Several of the Cole family were zealous 
supporters of the Church and are distinguished in its early re- 
cords. John (born 1 7 1 5 ), the eldest son of Elisha and Elizabeth, 
studied law in the office of Col. Daniel Updike, married his 
only daughter, Mary, and became the Chief Justice of Rhode 
Island. Another son. Col. Edward Cole, will be referred to in 
a later note. Elisha Cole's mother was Susannah Hutchinson, 
a daughter of the famous Ann Hutchinson, formerly of Mas- 
sachusetts. After Mrs. Hutchinson's banishment from that col- 
ony, in 1637, and a residence of a few years on the Island of 
Aquidneck, or Rhode Island, she removed to East Chester, 
New York, where she and all her children, with one excep- 
tion, the above Susannah, were massacred by the Indians. 

73 ''William Mumford of Newport." 

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here " does not imply that Mr. Mumford himself was present, 
but is equivalent, in accordance with old usage, frequently- 
illustrated in this Diary, to "William Mumford's two eldest 
daughters, etc." (Note 102.) 

This appears to be the William Mumford, who, in 1729, was 
married to Elizabeth Honyman, the only daughter of the Rev. 
James Honyman, by Dean Berkeley, it being the only instance, 
so far as recorded in the Church Register, of the Dean's per- 
forming a marriage, during his residence on the island. After 
marriage they resided, for some years, in South Kingstown, 
the Narragansett Parish Register containing the following en- 
tries, "Aug. 15^- 1734. Cecilia Mumford, Granddaughter of 
the Rev. James Honyman of Rhode Island, an infant and 
daughter of Mr. William Mumford of South Kingstown, was 
baptized by Mr. MacSparran of Narragansett." "July lOt*"- 
1735. Mr. MacSparran baptized William Mumford, a child, 
son of Mr. William Mumford, shopkeeper in South Kings- 
town. The sureties were the Grandfather, the Rev. Mr. James 
Honyman, and the Grandmother, Mrs. Elizabeth Honyman, 
and the uncle of the child, Mr. Francis Honyman." Soon after 
this, probably in 1736, Mrs. Mumford died, her remains lying 
buried in Trinity Churchyard. In 1738 Mr. Mumford was 
elefted a Warden of Trinity Church, Newport, whither he 
must have previously removed if he be the same William Mum- 
ford as the son-in-law of Mr. Honyman. He remained a War- 
den or a Vestryman, nearly, if not quite, continuously until 
at least 1772, when his name is last mentioned in the Annals 
of Trinity Church. In 1745 it was voted that he be permitted 
to occupy a house, formerly a part of the estate of Nathaniel 
Kay, belonging to the parish, the lease being renewed as late 
as 1750, for five years. The Narragansett Register records the 
baptism of John, son of William and Susannah Mumford, at 
Mrs. Cole's, in 1744. This fadl, taken with the frequent men- 
tion in the Diary, as here, of the families of William Mumford 
and Mrs. Cole together, and the farther fadl that the latter had 
a daughter Susannah make it almost demonstrable that Mr. 
Mumford married Mrs. Cole's daughter, as a second wife. Prob- 
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of Mrs. Cole. (Note 72.) William Mumford (born in South 
Kingstown, February 18, 1694), was a brother of Thomas, 
Joseph, Benjamin and Richard. (Notes 53 and 64.) 

74 "/« our way to Warwick^ 

The part of the town still known as "Old Warwick," at the 
head of Warwick Neck. 

75 ^''Samuel Chase's wedding.'''' 

Samuel Chase was a son of Capt. John Chase, who removed 
from Barbadoes to Newport and married Anne, a daughter of 
Gov. Benedict Arnold and a sister of Mrs. Daniel Updike, 
in 171 3. Samuel was born July 30, 1722, and lived for about 
eighty years. He was the first Colonial Postmaster of Provi- 
dence, having been appointed by Benjamin Franklin. One of 
his children was Dr. John Chase, of Providence, an expert 
in the treatment of small-pox and father of the well-known 
John B. Chase, also of Providence. The records of S. John's 
Church, in that city, contain a vote, passed in 1774, "that 
the pew of Samuel Chase, Esq., be free from all taxes, for 
his long and special services to the church," and another, in 
1794, "that a pair of decent gravestones be erefted to the 
memory of the late Dr. John Chase, at the expense of the 
church, in testimony of their respedl to the remains of their 
departed brother, who was for years a faithful friend and ser- 
vant of the church." Mr. Chase served the church, as organ- 
ist, for many years, without compensation. — Updike's Hist, of 
the Narragansett Churchy pp. 109, 414, 422. 

76 ^''Freelove LippetT 

A daughter of Moses Lippet, of Warwick. (See next note.) 
She was born March 31, 1720. 

77 ^^ Dined at Mr. Lippefs.'' 

Moses Lippet, at whose house, in old Warwick, Doftor Mac- 
Sparran so frequently lodged and held service, was a grandson 
of John Lippet, who was commissioned, as a resident of Provi- 
dence, to assist in organizing the government under the first 
charter, in 1647, but soon removed to Warwick. Moses Lippet 
married, November 20, 1707, Ann (or Anphillis) Whipple, 
a daughter of Joseph Whipple, of Providence, famous for her 
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Col. Christopher Lippet, who became celebrated in the Revo- 
lutionary War, was a grandson of Moses. The latter died 
December 12, 1745, and was buried in his own grounds, Doc- 
tor MacSparran preaching his funeral sermon. — Updike's ^;V/. 
of the Narragansett Church, pp. 371, 372. 

78 '■'Colonel Maunyr 

Col. Peter Mawney, of East Greenwich, belonged to the family 
of that name, which came, with other Huguenots, and settled the 
south-western portion of East Greenwich, still (for that reason) 
known as Frenchtown. The name was originally Le Moine. 

79 '■'■Capt. Benjamin JVickhamy 

Benjamin Wickham, of Newport (born November 17, 1701), 
belonged to a numerous family, of that name, prominent in 
Trinity Church, at least three others of whom bore the title 
of Captain. Benjamin Wickham married Rebecca Watmough, 
September 11, 1733, at S. Paul's, London. In 1757 he became 
Speaker of the House of Deputies. 

80 " Afr. Watmough and wife" 

When Mrs. MacSparran died of small-pox in London, in 1755, 
her husband recorded, among the six pallbearers at her funeral 
(the others being either Irishmen or New Englanders), "Mr. 
George Watmough, an Englishman," who appears to have been 
called to the Dodlor's side, in the hour of his bereavement, as 
an intimate friend. It seems probable that the Mr. Watmough 
of this entry was a member of the same family, Mr. Edmund 
Watmough, who is known to have been in Newport at about 
this period, where he married. He subsequently returned to 
England. Mr. Watmough was, very likely, a relative of Capt. 
Benjamin Wickham's wife, the recipient of the letter con- 
veying friendly remembrances to Dr. and Mrs. MacSparran. 
There were Watmoughs in Lancashire and Kent and more re- 
cently in Yorkshire, branches of the family being now found 
in America, — at Philadelphia and Washington. 

81 " / opened Manny Clark's Carbuncle." 

An instance, among many, of Dr. MacSparran's afting as a 
physician and surgeon. 

82 ''Anthony." 

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appears to have been an intimate friend of Benjamin Mum- 
ford, with whose name his own is here joined. His son, James 
Dickson, married Mr. Mumford's daughter Ann. The Nar- 
ragansett Register contains records of the baptism of several 
children of Anthony and Hannah Dickson, with Benjamin and 
Ann Mumford as sponsors. On Oftober 4, 1747, it is recorded 
that Dr. MacSparran admitted Anthony Dickson to the Eu- 
charist for the first time. 

83 "7«° Cole, Esqr (Note 72.) 

John, the eldest son of Elisha and Elizabeth Cole, was born 
in 171 5 and was, therefore, at this date twenty-eight years of 
age. He soon after married Mary, the only daughter of Colonel 
Updike, his present fellow-visitor at Doftor MacSparran 's ; and 
became Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Colony. He 
died about 1777, in a small-pox hospital, which he had been 
induced to enter for inoculation. 

84 ''Dr. Hazardr 

Dr. Robert Hazard was a son of Caleb and Abigail (Gardi- 
ner) Hazard, the latter being a sister of Mrs. MacSparran 
and at this date the wife of Gov, William Robinson. (Note 
18.) 

Doftor Hazard was born at the close of the year 1722 and was, 
therefore, now in his twenty-first year. He was baptized by the 
Doftor, August 17, 1742, Mrs. MacSparran, "aunt by the moth- 
er's side to s'' young man" being one of his sureties. He had 
been reared as a Friend. In 1752 Doftor Hazard married Eliza- 
beth, a daughter of the late Gov. Robert Hazard, of Point Ju- 
dith. He was a popular physician in South Kingstown and died 
February 12, 177 1, after a lingering illness. On Sunday, Feb- 
ruary 24th, Parson Fayerweather "preached at the house of 
mourning of the late Doftor Hazard on mortality, a large con- 
gregation present." 

Young Robert Hazard is frequently mentioned in this Diary 
as a visitor at the Glebe House and was evidently a favourite 
with the Doftor, as well as with his aunt, Mrs. MacSparran. 
He was educated as a physician, by his uncle, the celebrated 
Doftor Silvester Gardiner. (Note 51,) — Updike's Hist, of th 
Narragansett Church, pp. 249, 250. 

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85 " Toung yo Whiple was at church.^'' 

Young Jo Whipple was, undoubtedly, a son of Joseph Whipple, 
of Newport, who was appointed Deputy Governor of the Col- 
ony in 1743. The latter was an eminent merchant, but met 
with a disastrous failure in 1753, on account of a sudden de- 
preciation in the value of the paper currency by nearly one- 
half, disturbing all commercial relations throughout the Colony. 
This was the first large mercantile failure in Rhode Island. 
As a son of the wealthy and honoured Governor, the young 
man might easily have attrafted the Doflor's attention in the 
congregation. — Rider's Historical Trad;, No. 8, Colonial Paper 
Currency, pp. 68, 69, 70. 

86 ''Hn Son Wilir 

This is not William Hazard, Mrs. Robinson's son by her first 
husband, but William Robinson, the seventh child of Gov. 
William Robinson and the second by his second wife, Abigail, 
the present Mrs. Robinson. He was born in 1729, being a lad 
of fourteen at the time of this visit. He married, in 1752, 
Hannah Brown, and died in 1785. 

87 ''Mr. Thomas Eldredr 

The Eldred family was among the earliest settlers of what be- 
came North Kingstown, there being not less than seven of 
that name in the list of freemen in the undivided town of 
Kingstown, in 1696. In the first entry of the Narragansett 
Parish Register, it is recorded that, on "April y^ x^^"^ 17 18," 
the Wardens and Vestrymen were sworn into their offices by 
^ John Eldred, Esq., Assistant. On February 24, 1725-6, Rich- 
ard Updike, the elder brother of Col. Daniel Updike, was mar- 
ried to Hannah Eldred. Thomas Eldred, her cousin, the person 
mentioned here as being immersed by Dodlor MacSparran, was 
a son of Capt. John Eldred. This baptism, like so many others, 
took place in Pettaquamscutt Pond, the arm of the sea spread 
out in front of the Doftor's residence. Immersion was more 
common, in the Episcopal Church, at that period, when so 
many had been subjedled to Baptist influences in Roger Wil- 
liams' day, than it is now. 

88 ''Old Thomas Hazardr 

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less numberofThomas Hazards. He was born in 1658 (or 1660), 
being the eldest son of Robert and a grandson of Thomas Haz- 
ard, the original emigrant from Great Britain, and was about 
eighty-five years old at the date of this entry. He died in 1749, 
at about the age of ninety-one. He was a very great landholder 
(Note 16), at one time owning Poppasquash Neck at Bristol 
and, later, six farms, aggregating nearly fifteen hundred acres, 
noted for their fertility, in the southern part of Boston Neck, 
Narragansett, beside large trafts of land lying west of Narrow 
River. — T. R. Hazard's Recolle£lions of Olden Times, pp. 183- 
192, 

89 « Tom Walmsleyr 

Walmsley, although evidently a much respefted neighbour of 
Doftor MacSparran, had negro blood in his veins, being what 
was then known as a Mustee, — a form of the Spanish word 
Mestizo, — the offspring of a white person and a quadroon. 
Tom's wife, Elizabeth, was an Indian. He is continually men- 
tioned, in the Diary, as working upon the Doftor's farm. The 
last recorded official aft of Doftor MacSparran, before going 
to England in 1754, was the baptism of four children of 
Thomas Walmsley, his wife having been baptized in 1742. 
There is an antiquarian interest attached to this name, inas- 
much as now, after the passage of a century and a half, it is 
still preserved in "Walmsley Hill," the designation of the 
road, by which one, approaching the ancient Glebe House 
from the north, descends from MacSparran Hill. Ruins of the 
chimney of the Walmsley house are still to be seen on the 
south-east corner, in leaving the Post Road, to go down the 
hill. Although partially a negro, Thomas Walmsley appears to 
have been himself a slaveholder. In the Diary, under the date 
Oftober 3, 1744, we shall find him spoken of as the Master 
of Tom Commock, a sailor, to whom some prize money was 
coming, Doftor MacSparran arranging the division of it for 
Walmsley. 

90 '■'■George Hazard^ s wife.'''' Note 16. 

Nine more or less unexpefted guests at dinner illustrate well 
old Narragansett hospitality, in general, and that of Mrs. Mac- 
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91 ''Mis Molly:' 

Mary, the only daughter of Col. Daniel Updike, who became 
the wife of John Cole, afterwards Chief Justice of Rhode Island. 
(Notes 72 and 83.) 

92 "Curtis'sr 

There is still a locality, in South Kingstown, a mile or two 
west of Wakefield and Peacedale, called "Curtis Corners," 
and this is, perhaps, the place referred to, although it is not 
certain that this name has so long been applied to the spot. 
The name of Curtis does not appear in the list of freemen in 
Kingstown in 1696 or in that of South Kingstown in 1723, 
the year after the division. There was a Samuel Curtis resid- 
ing in the town at this period, he being married to Amie Case, 
March 19, 1746, and he, or another Samuel Curtis, becoming a 
Justice and performing a marriage in 1791. 

93 "J no Updiker 

John Updike was a son of Richard, the elder son of Capt. 
Lodowick Updike and brother of Col. Daniel. He was, at 
this date, a lad of about sixteen and, his father having died 
some years earlier, may very probably have been an inmate 
of his Uncle Daniel's house, in which, a year or two later, his 
sister Mary was married. The Narragansett Register records 
the marriage of his father, Richard, to Hannah Eldred, Feb- 
ruary 24, 1725-6, and the fafts that, on May 7, 1734, "Mr. 
Richard Updike, being sick and visited by Mr. MacSparran, 
desired his children might be baptized in his profession and 
Mr. MacSparran baptized them accordingly, viz^ Jn% Richard 
Smith, Daniel, James, Mary and Elizabeth." John Updike 
became, later, a resident of Providence. 

94 ''Thomas Gardiner.'''' 

Mrs. MacSparran had a brother of that name, as well as a 
nephew, the son of her brother John. As the latter was not 
more than about twenty years of age at this time, it is prob- 
able that this Thomas Gardiner, who entrusted Mrs. MacSpar- 
ran with £zo^ was the former. 

95 " J 1. Mumford" Note 49. 

The name of Joseph Mumford appears in the list of freemen 
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by itself in the preceding year. At the second town-meeting, 
held in March 1723, Joseph Mumford was chosen a consta- 
ble of the town. Three or four weeks later than this entry, 
Dr. MacSparran records a visit on Mr. Joe Mumford, 

96 " Three of her sons.^^ 

Robert and Caleb were two of the three sons of Mrs. Robin- 
son by her frst husband, Caleb Hazard, and were, respec- 
tively, about twenty and nineteen years of age, while Chris- 
topher was her oldest son by Governor Robinson, being 
fifteen at this date. 

97 ^^ Robert went to Boston." 

He was, at this period, being educated, as a physician, by his 
uncle. Dr. Silvester Gardiner, of Boston. (Note 84.) 

98 ''Will Martin." 

William Martin was a son of Esq. John Martin of Conani- 
cut, at whose house Dr. MacSparran frequently visited and 
preached, as, for instance, two days after this. About three 
months later, William Martin was baptized, by the Doftor, 
upon a bed of sickness, at his father's house. Narragansett 
Register, December 10, 1743. This list of Conanicut people 
embraced plainly all the inhabitants, not simply the adher- 
ents, among them, of the Church of England. 

99 ''Harry Northrup's wife." 

Stephen Northrup, the grandfather of Henry (or "Harry"), 
was, in 1658, a freeman of Providence, and in 1671 took the 
oath of allegiance in "Kingstowne," having purchased a farm 
of more than 600 acres near the head of Boston Neck. He 
died not earlier than 1687. Upon the death of his son Stephen, 
in 1733, the portion of the farm not previously disposed of, 
was divided among his three sons, Thomas, Henry, and Nich- 
olas. The share of Henry (the "Harry" of the Diary) was 
the northwest portion, lying upon the Mattatoxet or Silver 
Spring River, known at that date as the Mill River, and in 
the vicinity of the mill site, later occupied as a snufF-mill by 
Dr. Moffatt and Gilbert Stuart. (Notes 251 and 296.) 
100 " Phisical Advice." 

Another instance of Dr. MacSparran 's afting as a physician. 
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sense of "medical," as "physick," in England, is still used 
in a general sense for all kinds of medicine, as it is by the 
Doftor, in this Diary, where he frequently speaks of "taking 
physick," meaning any kind of medicine. 

lOi "Afn. Susy Neargrass.''* 

Susannah Neargrass was married to Daniel Ayrault, Jr., of 
Newport, April 17, 1737. He was born in East Greenwich, 
November 2, 1707, His father, who was also named Daniel, 
and his grandfather. Dr. Pierre Ayrault, fled on account of 
persecution,withotherHuguenots, from Rochelle, or Anglers, 
France, to Rhode Island, settling in the southwestern seftion 
of East Greenwich, it being the most fertile portion of the 
township and being still designated by the name of French- 
town. 

Madame Knight, in the Journal oi her tour on horseback, 
in 1704, from Boston to New York, mentions being joined 
at the Inn near the "Devil's Foot" in North Kingstown, 
by Dr. Ayrault, who died in 1711. Daniel Ayrault, Jr., 
the husband of "Mrs. Susy Neargrass," was sent to Boston 
"to learn the art and trade of a merchant," and was en- 
gaged in business in Newport as early as 1726, when no 
more than nineteen years of age. It is noticeable that Mr. 
Ayrault's second wife, to whom he was married March 3, 
174.5, was also named Neargrass, being the widow of Edward 
Neargrass. In conneftion with Capt. Philip Wilkinson (Note 
119), Dr. MacSparran's particular friend, Daniel Ayrault, 
Jr., was largely interested in navigation. Both he and his 
father were also aftive in all works of benevolence and were 
staunch supporters of the Church of England. Daniel Ayrault, 
Jr., died April 20, 1770. 

102 ^^Toung "Joe Hammond his wife.''* 

Joseph Hammond, the elder, was born in England in 1690 
and bought, in 1738, a farm in Pettaquamscutt Purchase, so 
situated on the Post Road, — the old Pequot Path, — that 
Dr. MacSparran always had to pass his house, which is still 
standing, in driving between his Glebe and S. Paul's Church. 
The place is yet known as the "Hammond farm" and that 
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"Hammond Hill," it being a part of the same range which, 
farther south, is called first^ " MacSparran Hill " and then, 
"Tower Hill." Upon "Hammond Hill" is still pointed out 
a trail of land which was originally reserved as a site for 
Dean Berkeley's proposed college for the Indians, although 
it is also frequently and, no doubt, authentically asserted, 
that the Dean was so much fascinated by the unrivalled pros- 
pedl of land and water from "Barber's Heights," to the east- 
ward of "Hammond Hill," that he declared he would ereft 
his college there, if he ever secured the money promised for 
the purpose by the British Government, which, /jozvever, h'C 
never did. "Young Jo Hammond his wife" means, of course 
(Note 73), in accordance with the usageof the period, "young 
Jo Hammond's wife." 

103 ^^ Sister Gardiner." 

As Mrs. MacSparran had /our brothers, three, at least, of 
whom were married, the identity of "Sister Gardiner" 
must be somewhat in doubt. But the well-known intimacy 
of the MacSparrans with the family of the eldest, John, 
leaves but little question that Ins wife is the one here in- 
tended. She was, before marriage, Mary Taylor, a niece of 
the wife of their neighbour. Squire Francis Willet, and was 
married to Mr. John Gardiner, as his second wife, Decem- 
ber 13, 1739. 

104 ^'■Maroca." 

A negro servant woman of Dr. MacSparran, frequently ap- 
pearing in this Diary. On February 6, 1725-6, the Doftor 
baptized her as "Maroca African," at the age of thirteen, 
"upon her personal profession of her own faith." 

105 ''Capt. Hill ^ wife r 

Capt. John Hill lived in that part of Westerly, which, in 
1738, was set off as the town of Charlestown, although it ap- 
pears to have continued to be Westerly, in popular parlance, 
being still so called in the later part of this Diary. In 1730, 
the Narragansett Parish Register records the marriage, by 
Mr. MacSparran, of Hannah, a daughter of Capt. John Hill, 
to Christopher Champlin, of the well-known Charlestown 
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of the Trustees, to whom George Ninigret, Chief Sachem 
of the Narragansett Indians (Note 257), conveyed forty- 
acres of land, upon which was built the Church of England 
chapel, known as "Westerly Church," although falling on 
the Charlestown side of the line. Capt. Hill's name is found 
in the "list of freemen" in Westerly, before 1727, and re- 
peatedly appears upon the roll of Representatives of the town. 
The Doftor occasionally preached at "Westerly Church" 
and records, in A?nerica DisseSied, that it was built through 
his own "excursions & out labours." 

106 "^ new light," 

A member of a fanatical religious seft of the day, to be dis- 
tinguished, however, from the "Campbellites" of the present 
century, also called by that title. It was the period of the 
great revival of religion occasioned by the preaching of Jona- 
than Edwards, whose system was, sometimes, popularly 
styled the "New Light Divinity," and may have given occa- 
sion to the name of this seft. In the New Light stir, about 
1741, a reformation was brought about among the Indians in 
Charlestown. One of the New Light preachers, a certain Dav- 
enport, visited New London and induced his disciples to burn 
their books and clothing, in imitation of the Ephesians. 

107 *''■ Indian Corn.'''' 

Owing to the well-known error in the Julian Calendar, not 
corredled, by the introduction of the Gregorian into the British 
Empire, until September 1752, this date for the beginning 
of the Maize Harvest was what we now call Oftober 4th, 
instead of September 23rd. This correction is necessary for 
a just comparison of the time of harvest, at that period, with 
that of to-day. Before the change from Old Style to New, 
it was possible, in very forward seasons and in favourable 
situations, in southern New England, to mature Indian corn 
sufficiently to grind it into meal for an August Pudding, but 
this became imprafticable after 1752, when September 3rd 
suddenly came to be noted as September 14th. It is men- 
tioned, in Daniel Holland's Diary, that in the following 
spring the season seemed to be as much altered as the style, 
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peach blooms were still to be seen, as previously, before the 
close of March. 

1 08 ''Mrs. Hilir Note 105. 

Mrs. Hill appears to have been taken ill while she and Capt. 
Hill were visiting at Mrs. MacSparran's niece's. 

109 ''At Case's." 

John Case, Esq., was a resident of Tower Hill, owning and 
occupying what was known as the "Quaker Hill Farm." He 
was a most devoted and liberal supporter as well as an ex- 
emplary member of the Church. After the death of Dr. 
MacSparran, in 1757, he became one of the principal con- 
tributors toward a fund for the purchase of the Doftor's farm, 
as a parish glebe, and also bequeathed a large sum to the 
S. P. G. towards the support of a bishop of the Church of 
England, who might be consecrated for America. Mr. Case 
died July 29, 1770. 

110 "Mrs. Walker:' 

Presumably the widow of Capt. William Walker of Provi- 
dence, who had died a few months previously, as shown by 
the following remarkable entry in the Register of the Narra- 
gansett Church. 

"Oft. ye 14''', 1742. Between two and three in the morning 
died suddenly, in the chamber with Col. Updike and John 
Checkley, Jr., Capt. William Walker, of Providence, F. R. S., 
and was buried in ye Churchyard of S. Paul's, Narragansett, 
the 1 5'*^ of said month. The funeral sermon was preached by 
the Dr." The conneftion of Capt. Walker with S. Paul's 
Church and the occasion of his being a Fellow of the Royal 
Society do not appear, any more than the cause of his sudden 
death and the reason of his being in company with Col. 
Updike and Mr. Checkley. But the association of Dr. Mac- 
Sparran with the incident, as well as its recent charadter, 
seems to warrant our believing the writer of this letter to 
have been his widow. Walker was an important name among 
the settlers of Bristol a.nd it is interesting to note, in this con- 
nexion, that the first services of the Episcopal Church, in 
that town, were conducted, in the early part of the eighteenth 
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cality still known as "Walker's Cove." {Story of the Mount 
Hope Lands, p. 141.) It is not improbable that Capt. Walker, 
if not identical with this William Walker, who must have 
been one of Dr. MacSparran's early Bristol friends, was of 
the same family. 

111 '■'■Capt. Thomas Hazard ^s wife.'* 

Mr. Updike makes the almost incredible statement {Hist, of 
the Narragansett Church, p. 247) that "there were thirty-two 
Tom Hazards living at one time." There were, therefore, 
undoubtedly, a considerable number, at the time of this 
Diary, and "Thomas Hazard's wife" is somewhat ambigu- 
ous. There is, however, no doubt that this "Capt. Thomas 
Hazard" was the one who was later and better known as 
"Col. Hazard of Boston Neck," being a brother of Gov. 
George Hazard and a nephew of "Old Thomas Hazard." 
(Note 88.) It is interesting to note that Col. Hazard's daugh- 
ter Abigail became the wife of the Rev. Peter Bours (Note 
308), mentioned in the Diary, and, after his death, of the 
Rev. Samuel Fayerweather, the successor of Dr. MacSparran, 
in S. Paul's Church. This latter marriage is thus quaintly 
recorded in the Narragansett Register, by the bridegroom, 
himself: "On the 13''^ of the month [Feb. 1763] Sunday 
Mr. F. was published to Mrs. Abigail Bours, The surviving 
Reli£i of the Rev. Peter Bours of Marblehead. Sunday the 
27* of Feb. Mr. F. was married to Mrs. Bours In the church 
at Newport, early in the morning, about 8 o'clock By the 
ReV^. Marmaduke Browne, and that Day (an Exceeding 
cold Day) preached on the occasion from these words to a 
large auditory, ' Do all to the Glory of GodJ " Another daugh- 
ter of Col. Hazard, named Alice, after her mother, whom 
the Doftor is here represented as visiting, married her own 
cousin. Carder Hazard, a son of Gov. George Hazard, and 
became the grandmother of the late Edward H. Hazard of 
Wakefield. 

112 '' Ephraim Gardiner's House." 

Mrs. MacSparran's great grandfather, George Gardiner, an 
emigrant from England and one of the first settlers of Nar- 
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name, in that locality. A few years since there ^^xc fifty-two 
Gardiners upon the voting-list of North Kingstown alone. 
Ephraira must, therefore, have been a near relative, perhaps 
a first cousin, of Mrs. MacSparran. As his house is described 
by the Doftor as " hard by," he is, probably, to be distin- 
guished from another of the same name, styled "Uncle Eph- 
raim," who lived several miles to the north. (Note 239.) 

113 ''The Chapeir 

King's Chapel, Boston. The present edifice of stone was built 
in 1754. -^^ ^^ X\n\^ of this visit in 1743, the Chapel was a 
small wooden strudlure eredled in 1689 and enlarged in 17 10, 
being the first Episcopal church built in Massachusetts. Dr. 
MacSparran mentions, a little later in the Diary, Sunday 
May 20, 1744, that he was again present at King's Chapel, 
but does not record whether or not he preached on that oc- 
casion. In 1785 the liturgy used in the Chapel was some- 
what altered in accordance with the tenets of the Unitarians, 
it having become a possession of that body. The present build- 
ing was designed by Peter Harrison, the Newport architeft, 
who drew also the tasteful front of the Redwood Library. 
The interior, with its high old-fashioned pews, its tall pulpit 
with sounding-board and its graceful pillars, is exceedingly at- 
traftive. Gov. John Winthrop and Rev. John Cotton lie in 
King's Chapel yard. 

114 '■'' Piscataqua" 

Now Portsmouth, New Hampshire, even then a rendezvous 
for vessels of war. 

115 ^'■Mrs. Hutchinson." 

The Boston Hutchinsons were of the family of the husband 
of the famous Ann Hutchinson and near relatives of the Coles 
of Narragansett. (Note 72.) This Mrs. Hutchinson may have 
been the wife of the Hon. Thomas Hutchinson, father of 
the governor of the same name. — Updike's Hist, of the 
Narragansett Church, pp. 105, 106. 

116 ^'■The VtSfory at Detingen on ye River Mayne." 

The battle of Dettingen is noted as the last engagement in 
which an English King (George II.) commanded in person. 
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having been drawn into it, through the support of the Prag- 
matic Sanftion. The King joined the allied army in June, 
1743, and, a few days later, occurred the battle, in which the 
French were beaten, occasioning great exultation throughout 
the British realm. The progress of the sovereign, in state, to 
the singing of a Te Deum, after this signal vidlory, was made 
the occasion of the composition, by Handel, of the well- 
known "Dettingen Te Deum." 

117 '•'■Billy Gardiner.''' 

John Gardiner's son William, a nephew of Mrs. MacSparran, 
was but a year and a half old at this time. "Billy Gardiner" 
must, therefore, have been her brother William, who was now 
forty-five years of age, having been born May 21, 1698. He 
married, a little before coming of age, Elizabeth, a daughter 
of William Gibbs, of Newport. Mrs. Matthew Stewart (Note 
36), of New London, and Mrs. Nicholas Lechmere, of New- 
port, were his daughters. 

118 '■'■Sebastian Kerhaut^ 

A servant or employe of Mr. Matthew Stewart, of New Lon- 
don (Note 36). At a later date Dr. MacSparran mentions 
him as "Sebastian Carhort, Stewart's man." His presence 
with "Billy Gardiner "confirms the supposition that the latter 
was Mr. Stewart's father-in-law, William Gardiner. 

119 '•'•Mrs. Wilkinson^ 

The wife of Capt. Philip Wilkinson, of Newport. Capt. Wil- 
kinson was a merchant, associated with Daniel Ayrault, Jr. 
(Note loi), and a well educated and intelligent gentleman, 
who emigrated to America from the North of Ireland. April 
26, 1736, he married Elizabeth, daughter of John Freebody, 
of a well-known old family of Newport, whose name is still 
popularly attached to a lot of land adjoining the Casino, in 
Bellevue Avenue. Mrs. Wilkinson lived until 1759. The 
Narragansett Register records, on August 6, 1747, her bap- 
tism, by Dr. MacSparran, by immersion, in Pettaquamscutt 
Pond. The Wilkinsons were exceptionally valued friends of 
Dr. and Mrs. MacSparran, frequently referred to in this Diary, 
and visited much at the Glebe, Col. Updike's and other i 
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tors of the Doftor's will. He left no descendants, but his last 
wife, Abigail Brenton, survived him, at his death, in 1782. 
(Mason's Annals of Trinity Churchy p. 73,) It is not unlikely 
that Dr. MacSparran had been acquainted with Capt. Wil- 
kinson in Ireland. 

120 "Mn. Coddington.''^ 

Mrs. Col. William Coddington (Note 68), formerly Jean 
Bernon, a daughter of the well-known Gabriel Bernon. The 
names of Col. and Mrs. Coddington appear frequently upon 
the Register of the Narragansett Church. They removed 
thither from Newport, in 1739, whither, however, they had 
evidently returned before the date of this entry. 

121 ^■'■Oxymel Scylliticum." 

Oxymel of squill, a mixture of vinegar of squill with honey, 
used as an emetic. 

122 '■'■Dined with Tom.^^ 

Among a large number of Thomases known to be living at 
Newport, at this period, and connefled with Trinity Church, 
it is most probable that this "Tom " was Capt. Thomas Wick- 
ham, who was prominent in the parish and was, at the next 
Easter, elefted Junior Warden. His three brothers, Capt. 
Samuel Wickham, Capt. Charles and Capt. Benjamin, were 
also conspicuous members of Trinity Parish. Capt. Benjamin 
visited the Doftor, at Narragansett, a few weeks previously. 
(Diary, August 15, 1743 ; Note 127.) 

123 '■'Stephen Ayrault" 

He was a son of Daniel Ayrault, Sr., and a younger brother 
of Daniel Ayrault, Jr. (Note loi), and was born in East 
Greenwich, Rhode Island, December 11, 1709. After the 
removal of his parents to Newport, during the following year, 
he continued to reside there and married Ann, a daughter of 
Peter Bours. He died April 16, 1794, and is styled, on his 
tombstone, "A pious Christian, upright merchant and honest 
man." 

124 "His sister Goldin." 

Mary, a daughter of Daniel Ayrault, Sr. (Note loi), was 
born in "Frenchtown," East Greenwich, February 16, 1704, 
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14, 1 72 1, and then to George Goulding of Newport, whom 
she survived, dying at Newport, March 25, 1764. 

125 ''Capt. Ellerfsr 

Perhaps William Ellery, who was living at Newport at this 
date, having been born at Bristol, Odlober 31, 1701, and dying 
March 15, 1764. He was father of the patriot, William El- 
lery, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. 
As the most prominent citizen of that name, it seems prob- 
able that the Doftor would have been entertained at his 
house, 

126 ^^ Brought me to Bills." 

Capt. Joshua Bill, the father of Miss Sarah Bill, who became 
Mrs. Amos Gardiner, of the "Four Chimney House." (Note 
366.) Capt. Bill lived at the South Ferry. 

127 ^^Sam Wickham breakfasted hereT 

Capt. Samuel Wickham, of Newport. (Note 122.) This fa- 
miliar way of speaking of Capt. Wickham as "Sam" marks 
Dr. MacSparran's intimacy with the Wickham family and 
helps to justify the supposition that the "Tom" with whom 
he dined, five days previously, was Capt. Thomas Wickham. 

128 ''At Mrs. Updike's, N: Town.'' 

"Updike's New Town" was an early name of the village 
now known as Wickford, and is so designated on various old 
English maps. The latter title was first given it, in 1663 or 
sometime previously, by Elizabeth Winthrop, wife of John 
Winthrop, Jr., Governor of the Colony of Connefticut and 
founder of the city of New London, where they resided. Mrs. 
Winthrop was a daughter of Edmund Read, of Wickford, 
Essex, England, where the record of her baptism, on Novem- 
ber 27, 16 14, may still be seen in the Register of "Wickford 
Old Church." Her grandson, John Winthrop, writing in July 
1704, in speaking of his "Grandmother's Drinking" at 
Elizabeth's Spring "in her travels up to Connefticot in ye 
Beginning of ye Country," testifies "Wickford also had its 
name from her, it Being ye place of Her Nativity in old 
England." {^Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, 
From January to June, 1874," pp. ^49' 250.) Mrs. Winthrop 
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appointment, by the Council of Connefticut (which then 
claimed jurisdiftion in Narragansett), July lO, 1663, of seleft- 
men and other officers, among them Richard Smith, Sr., for 
the new town, which it was ordered (doubtless at the sug- 
gestion of Gov, and Mrs. Winthrop), "shall for the future, 
be called by the name of Wickforde." No aftion, however, 
was taken for the execution of this order. On Odlober 28, 
1674, the Assembly of Rhode Island, opposing the jurisdidlion 
of Connefticut, incorporated the town under the name of 
"Kingstowne," a name which it has ever since borne, ex- 
cept for a short period, when it was changed to Rochester. 
In 1722, the town was divided into North and South Kings- 
town. In the course of time the Connefticut name of "Wick- 
ford" came to be applied to the central village of the former 
township, instead of to the whole territory. — Cole's History 
of Washington and Kent Counties, p. 373 and Arnold's Fital 
Record of Rhode Island, Vol. v., p. 3 and Part i., p. 3. 
It would seem from this entry of the Doftor, that the name 
of "New Town" was still sometimes, after seventy or 
eighty years, used for "Wickford." It is probable that the 
two names coexisted for a long time. Gysbert op Dyck, or 
Updike, came from New Amsterdam to Rhode Island in 1659, 
so that the name of "Updike's New Town" seems slightly 
to have antedated that of "Wickford." 

129 ^^ March Sth, 1743." 

Before the adoption of "New Style," in 1752, the new year 
was not regarded as beginning until the Annunciation, March 
25th. Had "New Style" been already introduced, the pre- 
sent date would have been 1744. In the Narragansett Regis- 
ter, Dr. MacSparran adopts "New Style" for the first time 
on January i, 1752, curiously enough writing it first, 175 i, 
and, later, with different ink, altering it to 1752. The com- 
plete change was not, however, legally adopted until Sep- 
tember 3, 1752, which was ordered to be called September 
14. (Note 107.) 

130 "Read Prayers at Home" 

The reftory being about three miles from the Church, often, 
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large north-east room (now divided into two), instead of 
opening the Church. For many of the parishioners, especially 
those living on Boston Neck, this was a much more conven- 
ient arrangement. The most severe winter of that period, 
that of 1740, with its uncommon cold and snow, is described 
in a sermon, preached in S, Paul's, upon the approach of 
spring, on Sunday, March 15th. 

131 ^^ Phebe Mumford." 

A daughter of Benjamin Mumford, at whose house the wed- 
ding occurred, (Note 53.) 

132 "A/r5. Jnstis Updike." 

Wife of Col. Daniel Updike (Note 10), and a frequent visitor 
at Dr. MacSparran's. (See August 2 3rd to August 26th, 1 743, 
in this Diary.) The Dodlor was absent from the Parish at 
the time of Mrs. Updike's death. In a letter of the Rev. John 
Checkley, Missionary of the S. P. G. at Providence, written 
to the Rev, Dr, Bearcroft, Secretary of the S. P. G. (as a 
postscript to a letter of January i, 1744-5), he says: "As 
I never have but once, so I never will leave the Church at 
Providence upon a Sunday without the special Leave & in- 
deed Diredlion of the Venerable Society, This Point (how- 
ever other Men may aft) I hitherto always have and always 
will make a Matter of Conscience ; Having never been ab- 
sent but one Sunday, and then utterly against my Will, tho 
upon the most pressing Occasion : it being to bury a Gentle- 
woman 20 miles distant, the Wife of Col. Updike, who sent 
an Express for me & would take no Denial : some hundreds 
of People attending ye Funeral, and unless I had gone, there 
would have been no Clergieman there, Dr. MacSparran (to 
whose Parish she belonged) being then at Boston," 
Mrs, Updike was the second wife of the Colonel and was, 
before marriage, Anstis Jenkins. Her grandfather, Mr. Wil- 
kins (from whom her grandson, Wilkins Updike, derived his 
name), married a Polish lady, who, on account of thus, as 
was alleged, marrying below her rank, lost the favour of her 
family and emigrated, with her husband, to America. Col. 
Updike was, at this period, praftising law in Newport (Up- 
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he must have made the acquaintance of Miss Jenkins. The 
Narragansett Register records that, on September 2, 1739, 
Mrs. Anstis Updike was admitted to the Sacrament of the 
Lord's Supper, having been heretofore, before her removal 
to the main land, a communicant at the church at Newport. 
Her husband had been baptized by Dr. MacSparran in 1730. 
Mrs. Updike left two children, Lodowick, the father of 
Wilkins Updike of Kingston, author of the History of the 
Narragansett Church; and Mary, who became Mrs, John 
Cole. (Notes 72 and 83.) 

Col. Updike married, a third time, the widow of Gov. Wil- 
liam Wanton, of Newport. 

133 ^<' William Mottr 

A youth, son of William and Katrine Mott. This is a well- 
known surname on Block Island. 

134 '■*■ George DunweW 

This name was long preserved in "Dunwell's Gangway," 
now broadened and changed to "Exchange Street," near the 
Custom House, in Providence. Dr. MacSparran married 
George Dunwell to Phebe Tennant, at the house of John 
Martin, on Conanicut. — Register of Narragansett Church. 

135 '•'-Phebe Tennant T 

Daughter of John Tennant, not then living. 

136 '''•Mr. Davenport of Boston." 

The Rev. Addington Davenport, a graduate of Harvard Col- 
lege, who was settled at Scituate, Massachusetts, from 1733 
to 1736, and died in Boston in 1746. 

137 "/ was 51 years old." 

The Doftor was born September 10, 1693, and died at the 
age of sixty-four years, two months, and twenty-two days. 

138 ''Stafford." 

Mrs. Greene was a daughter of the Samuel Stafford mentioned 
in Note 13. Jonathan Greene, her husband, died January 
1748-9. 

139 ''My Tropick Bird." 

(Note 22 and Diary July 14, 1743.) 

140 "Betty Gardiner." 

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ner, Mrs. MacSparran's brother (Note 1 1 7), and a first cousin 
of Dr. Robert Hazard, who accompanied her to Conanicut. 
A few weeks later. Miss Betty and her cousin Robert stood 
together, as sponsors, at the baptism of the infant daughter 
of their uncle John Gardiner. Miss Gardiner became the 
wife of Nicholas Lechmere, Comptroller of the Customs in 
Newport, who left the town with the British at the time 
of their evacuation. (Updike's History of the Narragansett 
Church, p. 212 ; Mason's Annals of Trinity Church, Newport, 
pp. 124, 167.) Mrs. Lechmere was still residing in Newport 
in 1784. 

141 "y^r. Robinson's." 

Gov, William Robinson's, William Hazard's step-father, who 
appears to have been living at the house now called "Ca- 
nonchet," near Narragansett Pier. (Note 18.) 

142 " The Infairr 

An infair (or infare) was a housewarming entertainment 
given by a newly-married couple on the bringing of the 
bride to her new home. The word is of provincial English 
and Scottish origin, with an etymological derivation analo- 
gous to that of thoroughfare. 

143 "p Rockr 

The "Great Rock" still to be seen crowning MacSparran 
Hill, where it overhangs the Glebe House. "Wm. on the 
hill" is probably the William Gardiner {not Mrs. MacSpar- 
ran's brother of that name), whose oxen the Dodlor's men 
were using July 19, 1743. (Notes 32 and 290.) 

144 ''The Bridge:' 

Over Narrow River, near the reftory. 

145 ";^35 sterling^ 

Most prices in the Diary are in currency (Note 25) but 
this, being in sterling, gives a more exadl idea of the value 
of the horse. 

146 ^'My Humbird." 

Probably a horse, like the "Tropick Bird," repeatedly men- 
tioned before. (Notes 22 and 139.) 

147 "y/ sick Mustee." 

A Mustee is the offspring of a white person and a quadroon. 
Abigail Sampson was baptized soon after. 

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148 ''The River r 

The Doftor alludes to a ford, still existing, somewhat south 
of his house. Its use, in crossing to Boston Neck, seems, just 
then, to have been made necessary by the condition of the 
adjacent bridge, indicated a few days before. 

149 "/« my Chair." 

It has been sometimes stated that there were no wheeled 
vehicles in the early days in Narragansett. But the frequent 
allusions, in the Diary, to the Doftor's "chair" and his wife's 
and Mrs. Updike's chaises (see Oftober 14, 1744), show that 
carriages had been already introduced, although, owing to 
the poor roads, the riding-horse was still much more common. 
Hence the prominence of the well-known "Narragansett 
Pacers." A "chair" was a two-wheeled, generally uncovered, 
vehicle, like a modern gig. 

150 "-Boston Neck." 

This Neck (Indian name, Namcook) extends from the An- 
naquatucket River, at Hamilton in North Kingstown, about 
eight miles, to che "Harbour's Mouth," at the eastern ex- 
tremity of Narragansett Pier Beach, and lies between the 
West Passage of Narragansett Bay on the east, and Narrow 
River on the west. It is said to have been so named, be- 
cause, very early, it was largely owned by residents of Boston. 
When Mrs. Almy was married, her husband was a merchant 
in Newport, but she was now, during her widowhood, living 
in Boston Neck. Mrs. Almy died in Narragansett, in 1763, at 
a very advanced age. (Note 24.) 

151 ''Jeoffrey WaUon" 

Jeffrey Watson, son of John and grandson of John, was born 
August 3, 17 1 2, being a member of the well-known South 
Kingstown family of that name. He was a second cousin of 
Mrs. MacSparran. 

152 ''Nath. Coddington" 

Mr. Coddington had been injured in a severe explosion of 
gunpowder on a wharf in Newport, described more fully in 
Note 1 57. He was a son of the Hon. Nathaniel Coddington, 
who lived in Newport in the early part of the eighteenth 
century, and was born January 18, 1692, and married Hope 

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Brown, March 20, 17 19, by whom he had ten children born 
before 1740. 

153 *■*■ Mr. Robinson s sick children.'''' 

The children of Gov. William Robinson, the brother-in-law 
of Mrs. MacSparran. (Note 18.) 

154 "/« Point Jud'ith^ 

This term was employed in those days to designate all that 
part of Narragansett lying dircftly between Tower Hill and 
what is now known as Point Judith. Gov. Robinson's estate 
of several thousand acres, covering the present Narragansett 
Pier, was said to be "in Point Judith," as was also "Kit's 
Pond" (now Silver Lake), near Wakefield. — Hazard's Recol- 
le£lions of Olden Ti?nes, pp. 10, 11. 

155 '■'■Joseph Murnford's son D'lck.'"' Note 49. 

Richard Mumford was baptized, with his three brothers, by 
Dr. MacSparran, in 1727. 

156 '' Taylor r 

The least prominent of the four viftims of the explosion. 

157 '-'■Mr. Codd'ington.^'' 

The accident here alluded to occurred on September 17, 
1744. "A number of persons had collefted on the wharf of 
Col. Malbone to witness the departure of two privateers, 
when a quantity of powder, which had been placed in one 
of the stores, by some unaccountable means exploded, kill- 
ing and wounding a number of persons." — Updike's His- 
tory of the Narragansett Churchy p. 165. 

Mr. Updike, as well as Mr. Mason, in the Annals of Trinity 
Church, Newport, p. 38, was in error in stating that the Mr. 
Coddington, who was thus killed, was Col. William Cod- 
dington. Dr. MacSparran, a contemporary witness intimately 
associated with the viftims and present at the funeral of at 
least one of them, asserts plainly that it was Nathaniel, a 
younger brother of Col. William Coddington. "Sept. 27th, 
Nath: Coddington is past Recovery," and again "Oct. 9th, 
my Discourse turned chiefly on y^ Accident of blowing up 
y* happened to Sueton Grant, Nath: Coddington, Jn° Gid- 
ley and one Mr. Taylor, y' are all dead." Moreover the 
Records of Trinity Church, Newport, show that William 

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Coddington continued adlive in the affairs of the Parish until 
1753, nine years after the accident. — Mason's Annals of 
Trinity Churchy pp. 89, 102, 106. 

Col. William Coddington being so much better known than 
Nathaniel, the mistake, in the absence of a first name in pre- 
vious narratives, is easily accounted for. He died in 1755. 

158 ''^ueton Grant r 

He was a personal friend of Dean Berkeley and joined him 
in the formation of the Philosophical Society of Newport, 
which, ultimately, grew into the Redwood Library. His 
daughter, Jane, became Mrs. John Powell, and another, Mary, 
married Major John Bell, a British officer, and died in Eng- 
land in 178 1. — Mason's Annals of Trinity Church, pp. 49, 

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159 '■'■Mr. Gidleys life is dispaired of^ 

John Gidley was a son of John Gidley, Judge of the Vice 
Admiralty Court, who came from Eton in Devon to Newport, 
and died there in 17 10. Dr. MacSparran married John Gid- 
ley, Jr., September, 1726, at New London, to Sarah Shack- 
maple, and was on such terms of intimacy with him as to 
visit Newport to be present at his funeral. Mr. Gidley's 
first wife lived only eight months and in 1728 he was again 
married to Mary, a daughter of Col. John Cranston. In 
1742-3, Mr. Gidley was appointed Judge of Admiralty. 
There is a perpetuation of the family name in Gidley Street, 
Newport. — Annals of Trinity Church, p. 45. 

1 60 " My wife's grandmother,^^ 

The mother of Mrs. Almy, Mrs. MacSparran's mother, was 
formerly Abigail Richmond, a daughter of Edward Rich- 
mond, "a member of the Church of England," and married 
John Remington in 1679. {Hist, of Narragansett Church, p. 
134.) She was still living at this date (1744), at the advanced 
age of eighty-eight, having married Henry Gardiner after 
Mr. Remington's decease. 

161 ''I had a Ring, Scarfs Gloves." 

At the Doftor's own funeral, in 1757, in accordance with 
this custom, it is recorded, in the Narragansett Register, 
"There was Rings, mourning weeds & Gloves gave to y* 

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Paul Bearers." Several such "mortuary rings" belonging to 
that period are still preserved in the Updike family. 

162 "/ lodged at Daniel AyrauWs." 

Probably Daniel Ayrault, Sr., who did not die until 1764.. 
(Note loi.) 

163 ^'■Capt. Dennis^ 

Capt. John Dennis, a member of Trinity Parish, Newport. 
He is probably the John Dennis who married Lydia Law- 
ton of Portsmouth, January 4, 1743. 

164 '•^Tom Commock's share of the Prize.^^ 

A member of Capt. Dennis's crew and a slave of Thomas 
Walmsley, styled, by Dodlor MacSparran, "his Master." 
(Note 89.) 

165 ^^Mr. IVilliam Mumford.'" Note 73. 

The "Mr. M.," with whom the Doftor supped, is, of course, 
Mr. Mumford. 

166 "A/y wive'' s grandmo"' funeral.'''' Note 1 60. 

As Dr. MacSparran, having been in Newport, could not 
reach the place where Mrs. Gardiner died in time for the 
funeral, there is no record of the service in the Narragansett 
Register. 

167 "yf visit of Condolence to her Mo''.''^ 

This visit to Mrs. Almy shows that it was her maternal 
grandmother whom Mrs. MacSparran had lost, rather than, 
as might have been spoken of in the same way, the one on 
her father's side. 

168 ''Long WilVs Wifer 

A William Gardiner, so called on account of his great stature, 
to distinguish him from Mrs. MacSparran's brother and 
others of the same name then living. On Oftober 18, 1726, 
the Narragansett Register records that "clinical Baptism 
was administered to Mary Gardiner, y^ wife of Wm. Gardi- 
ner, commonly called 'Long William.'" It was a distindive 
custom of Narragansett thus to designate those of the same 
name, as "Long Stephen Hazard" and "Short Stephen." 

169 '' Xtopher Phillipsr 

The ancient Phillips House, in North Kingstown, where 
Dr. MacSparran frequently visited, is still standing near 

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Belleville station, being notable for a massive stone chimney. 
It has the added attraftion of a reputed ghostly lady on horse- 
back, who careers up and down the spacious attic, on windy 
nights. The Phillips family were staunch friends and sup- 
porters of the Narragansett Church from the beginning, the 
names of Samuel Phillips as Warden and Thomas as Vestry- 
man appearing in the first entry in the Parish Register. This 
antique vellum-bound volume is entitled. The Register Book 
belonging to the Church of S. PauPs in Narragansett^ Bought 
in Boston by Thomas PlnlUps. (1720.) 

Christopher Phillips, of whom the Doftor made this purchase 
of leather, died on August 10, 1753, exaftly one month 
after his wife. (Note 294.) 

170 *■'■ Her red Durance Petticoat.'''* 

Durance was the name of a fabric intended to possess an un- 
exampled durability. It was also called Everlasting. Being 
glazed with a sort of varnish, it had somewhat the appearance 
and stiffness of leather. An old drama speaks of "your min- 
cing niceries, — durance petticoats, and silver bodkins." 
Marston, Jonson & Chapman, Eastward Ho, i. 2. 

171 ^^ Dr. Ha'zard is reading Physick." 

Robert Hazard, Mrs. MacSparran's nephew. (Note 84.) 

172 ^^This sent home Nov. yth by Mr. Mason." 

This Diary, left, by mistake, at Conanicut, the day before, 
now returned by private hand. 

173 *■*■ Abigail Sampson." Note 147. 

The Narragansett Register records this incident as follows : 
"Nov. iS''^- Dr. MacSparran baptized Abigail Sampson, wife 
of Sampson, an Indian, but she a mustee and old woman." 

174 ^^^ Married George Read and Eleanor Read." 

This seems to assert that the bride's maiden name was Read, 
a view confirmed by the Parish Register, which records, 
"Dr. MacSparran married George Read and Eleanor Read, 
after due Publication, in the Body of the Church." But it is 
to be noted that, in another place, we read, "Dr. Edward 
Ellis was married to Abigail, Ins wife, by Dr. MacSparran." 

175 "^ thing too little praSiised among us." 
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176 ''Jan. 6'"- 1744." 

In accordance with New Style, 1745. 

177 ''Elizabeth Gardiner." Note 1 40. 

Mrs. MacSparran's niece. William Gardiner, her father, mar- 
ried Elizabeth Gibbs, of Newport, for whom this daughter 
was, doubtless, named. 

178 "At Mr. Mathew Stewards of New London.'''' Note 36. 
Miss Elizabeth Gardiner, who accompanied the Doftor, was 
a sister of Mrs. Stewart. 

179 "S. yames's Churchy in New London." 

This church originated in 1725. Dr. MacSparran appears to 
have had a prominent and influential part in laying its foun- 
dations, inasmuch as he remarks, in his America DisseSled, 
" I myself began one church, by occasional visits among them, 
at a place called New London, and that has given rise to 
others." The earliest entry in the Register of S. James's, 
June 6, 1725, is a copy of a paper, in which the subscribers 
bind themselves to pay the amount of their several subscrip- 
tions to Mr. MacSparran, as Treasurer of the fund for the 
ereflion of a church. — Hist, of the Narragansett Church, p. 

503- 

180 " El'i-zabethy daughter of Mathew Stewart.''^ 

The Elizabeth "born during our Stay," married Roswell 
Saltonstall, a son of the Governor. The late Rev. Dr. Hal- 
lam, reftor of S. James's Church, in writing to Mr. Wilkins 
Updike, January 10, 1842, says, "There was living here un- 
til a few months since a venerable lady who was a niece of 
Dr. MacSparran and remembered him well." As Elizabeth 
Stewart was a daughter of Mrs. MacSparran's niece, and was 
twelve years old at the time of Dr. MacSparran's death, it 
seems not improbable that she was the one referred to. — 
Hist, of Narragansett Church, p. 503. 

181 "Baptized John W'ler." 

A grandson of Benjamin Mumford. (Notes 27, 53.) 

182 "Baptized Samuel King." 

Son of Magdalene King, a daughter of Peter Levally, who 
died in Warwick, 1756. Mr. Levally was an ancestor of the 
large Warwick and Coventry family of that name. 

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183 ^^ James Boon" 

A son of Samuel Boone and a brother of Samuel Boone, Jr. 

184 *'Mary Updike." 

One of the five children of Richard Updike, elder brother 
of Col. Daniel. Richard being ill, in 1734, he desired to 
have these children baptized "in his profession," Capt. 
Lodowick Updike and his wife, being the grandparents, 
standing as sponsors on the occasion. This Mary Updike is 
to be distinguished from her cousin of the same name. Col. 
Updike's daughter, afterwards Mrs. John Cole, whom the 
Dodlor styles "Mis Molly," at the time of the visit of Mrs. 
Updike and her children, at the Glebe House, in August, 
1743. As the bride, on this occasion, had been fatherless for 
some years, it is likely that she, as well as her brother John, 
had a home at their uncle's house, where the wedding took 
place. 

185 ^^Christopher Dickinson." 

He was a son of Capt. John Dickinson, a merchant living 
at Coeset in 1733 and, probably, for some years later, as Dr. 
MacSparran baptized his son, Charles Dickinson, at that 
place in 1736. Capt. Dickinson failed in business and re- 
mained in Warwick but a few years at most. His wife was 
Mary Phillips, a daughter of Samuel and Elizabeth Phillips. 
Christopher Dickinson was, apparently, named for his uncle, 
Christopher Phillips, that Christian name being a favourite 
one in the Phillips family. The Dickinsons were a South 
Kingstown family, one of them being one of the first vestry- 
men of S. Paul's and another, Ann, marrying into the dis- 
tinguished Auchmuty family in 1734. 

186 ^^ Stepney." Note 23. 

Under date of May 3, 1745, Dr. MacSparran records, in the 
Narragansett Parish Register, "The day before that, the Dr's 
beloved manservant, a Christian negro named Stepney, was 
drowned in Pettaquamscutt Pond, the faithfullest of all Ser- 
vants, and was interred in the Churchyard of S. Paul's, Nar- 
ragansett, with a decent Christian Solemnity." 

187 ^^ Edward Sherman." 

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town. He "dyed of a Decay," two or three weeks later, as the 
Doftor remarks on the occasion of preaching his funeral sermon. 

1 88 ''Intof Wilderness:' 

Scituate, Rhode Island, which is about thirty miles northwest 
of the Doctor's residence in South Kingstown. More than a 
century later an Episcopal chapel was built in South Scituate. 

189 "yf/ Samuel Cooper s" 

Abigail, a sister of Col. Updike, married Matthew Cooper. 
It is probable that Samuel was a relative of his and that the 
Doftor became acquainted with him through the Updike 
family, with whom he shared their interest in the Church. 

190 ''One childr 

John Howard, whom the Narragansett Register refers to as 
having been " formerly, privately baptized by Mr. Pigot, in 
his travels through those woods, where his wife had, and 
still has, some lands." 

191 ''Mr. Pigot y 

The Rev. George Pigot was the first reftor of "King's 
Church" (now S. John's), Providence. He was appointed 
by the S. P. G., originally, to Stratford, Connedlicut, and 
removed thence to Providence about 1723. Mr. Pigot had 
previously been a schoolmaster in Newport, where he mar- 
ried, about 17 1 7, Sarah, only child of Francis Carr, a ship- 
wright of that town. His wife having lands in Warwick (Note 
11), a dozen miles from Providence, he built upon them a 
large house, the ruins of which are still visible. From Provi- 
dence, Mr. Pigot removed, in 1727, to Marblehead, Massa- 
chusetts, where he became reftor of S. Michael's Church, 
with monthly services at Salem. In 1738 he returned to 
England and was appointed to the incumbency of Chaldon, 
Surrey. He possessed considerable literary ability and distin- 
guished himself in a controversy with a Marblehead Congre- 
gational divine, concerning the propriety of the celebration 
of Christmas. His brother Edward, a physician, who soon 
followed him to Warwick, married there, in 1733, Ruth 
Havens, a daughter of Robert, and had two children, Richard 
and Rebecca. On August 28, 1726, Dr. MacSparran bap- 
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192 '■^ Baptized another.^'' 
Joseph Howard. 

193 '■^ Rode fourteen miles to Xtopher Lippet'sT 

One of the Doftor's Warwick parishioners living at Shanticut 
(Meshanticut) between the present sites of Pontiac and Na- 
tick, on the north side of the Pawtuxet River, where he had 
a saw-mill. A year or two later the Doftor immersed Mrs. 
Katherine Lippet, wife of Christopher, and a daughter of An- 
thony Holden, in the cove at old Warwick. In November, 
175 I, the Doftor passed a night at Mr. Lippet's, in a time of 
affliftion and sickness, making a memorable journey thither 
and back, as recorded in detail in the Diary. (Note 394.) 

194 ^^ Quaker General Meeting.'''' 

The "Friends" have been identified with East Greenwich 
from the earliest period, and erefted there, in 1700, the first 
house of worship in the vicinity. A resident of that day re- 
marked, "The people of East Greenwich are either Quakers 
or nothing." General Meeting was commonly, if not uni- 
formly, held on the island of Rhode Island, where the first 
session occurred in 1659, and it has been supposed that a 
yearly meeting has been held there ever since, without in- 
termission. — Greene's History of East Greenwich, p. 74. 
At the present time the Friends' Society in East Greenwich, 
once entirely the predominant religious body of the town, 
is in a dwindling and depressed condition, numbering less 
than a dozen members. (Note 289.) 

195 ''Betty Cokr 

Miss Elizabeth Cole was born in 1720. (Note 72.) 

196 ''Betty Mumford" 

Elizabeth Mumford was a daughter of William and Eliza- 
beth (Honyman) Mumford. (Note 73.) There can be little 
doubt that Miss Elizabeth Cole's sister Susannah was the 
step-mother of Elizabeth Mumford, making the two visitors 
occupy the relation of aunt and niece. 

197 "Mr. Whitefield:' 

The well-known English clergyman, who was born 1 7 14 and 
died in Newburyport, Massachusetts, September 30, 1770. 
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England in the following year to coUeft funds to build an 
orphan asylum near Savannah. In 1739 he began to preach 
in the open air, in a field near Bristol, England. 

198 ^^ Some years ago^ 

Mr. Whitefield had visited New England about 1740 and 
preached to 20,000 persons on Boston Common. He returned 
to England in January, 1 741. The present visit appears to 
have been his second to New England. He made seven 
American tours in all. 

199 ''Mrs. Hatch." 

On June 28, 1744, ^^- MacSparran married Capt. Ezekiel 
Hatch, of Newport, to Mary Peckham, at the house of her 
father, Thomas Peckham, a carpenter. Hatch was a sailor 
and was reported "missing" in 1747. 

200 ''Married this Day 23 years." 

The Narragansett Parish Register records as follows : "The 
22nd of May, 1722, the Rev*^- Mr. MacSparran was married 
to Mrs. Hannah Gardiner, at y'= church, by y^ Rev^- Mr. 
Ja^- H" [onyman of Newport.] 

201 "Poor Mary Willet." 

Mrs. Francis Willet. She lived until 1769, when Mr. Fayer- 
weather records that on April 16, he "visited old Mrs. Wil- 
let, who was taken ill with an apoplexy," and that, on April 
18, "she was buried and Funeral sermon preached by Mr. F., 
after her interment, at the Esq'''^ House." (Note 31.) Mrs. 
Willet was born in 1678, her maiden name being Taylor. 

202 "Her niece, Mrs. Gardiner." 

The second Mrs. John Gardiner was formerly Mary Taylor, 
a niece of Mrs. Willet. (Note 15.) 

203 "Mistress Holmes." "Capt. Holmes." 

Probably James Holmes, a member of Trinity Parish, New- 
port. The Thomas Gardiner mentioned with Capt. Holmes 
was probably Mrs. MacSparran's brother of that name, born 
Oftober 30, 1702, although he may have been her nephew, 
Thomas, born March 11, 1725, son of her brother, John. 

204 "Mrs. Eliot." 

Mrs. Capt. Robert Elliot, of Newport, before her marriage 
Almy Coggeshall. 

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205 ''Mr. H n." 

Rev, Mr. Honyman, reftor of Trinity Church, Newport, 
the blank indicating a need of reticence. 

206 ''Mr. Bourse." 

Peter Bours of Newport, a man of influence in the Church ■'^ 
and the community, and the father of the Rev. Peter Bours. 
He died in 176 1 at the age of 56. (Note 308.) 

207 "Bennett 

Thomas Bennet. He and his wife, Ann, are repeatedly men- 
tioned in the Narragansett Register, as sponsors, — in one 
case, for their grandson, Benjamin Bailey. 

208 "Mr. Duglass's." 

The Douglass house, built about 1737, is still standing in 
North Kingstown, upon the Post Road, at the corner of that 
and the road running easterly over "Kit's Hill" to the Gil- 
bert Stuart house and the old North Ferry. The date of 
its ereflion may yet be read upon the heavy stone chim- 
ney, the last figure, however, being difficult to decipher. It 
is so placed that one driving between the church and the 
Glebe House was obliged always to pass it. It is again re- 
ferred to later in the Diary. The house and farm have 
lately been sold, but, so deserted and unattraftive has the 
neighbourhood become, they brought but a few hundred 
dollars. 

209 "Br^ Jn' sheered." 

A sheep shearing was in those days an occasion of festivity, 
as witnessed by the presence of Mrs. MacSparran and her 
niece at this and the one two days later at Rowland Robin- 
son's. The Narragansett people were of so social a disposi- 
tion as to take advantage of every favourable opportunity for 
a merry-making. 

210 "Little Nab Gardiner." 

Abigail Gardiner, a daughter of Mr. John Gardiner, of 
Boston Neck, and a niece of Mrs. MacSparran. She was 
at this date not yet five years of age, having been born 
September 26, 1740. About fifteen years later she married 
Lodowick Updike, "y« young Squire" of the Diary. (Note 
47.) 

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211 ''Bolico." 

A servant of the Doftor's who went to drive Mrs. Mac- 
Sparran and is several times referred to in the Diary. 

212 '■'■Capt. Sweet." 

Capt. Benoni Sweet, sometimes styled "Dr." Sweet, lived 
in a house still standing, in a somewhat dilapidated condition, 
on the Post Road, at the foot of "Ridge Hill," about a half 
mile south of Silver Spring in North Kingstown. He was a 
son of James Sweet, who is said to have emigrated from 
Wales and purchased the above estate. But it is certain that 
John Sweet, the father of James, was living in Salem, Mas- 
sachusetts, as early as 1632 and in Providence as early as 
1637. James, who was born in 1622, was doubtless brought 
over to this country in early childhood, Benoni had been a 
captain in the British service, being well-informed and of 
polished manners. His principal claim to note is the faft 
that he was a "natural bone-setter" and the ancestor of the 
well-known family so widely and numerously famed for that 
gift. The explanation given by one of the family of the way 
in which he was enabled to deteft dislocations, which had 
eluded the skill of scientific surgeons, although recorded 
many years since, sounds like an account of the employment 
of the newly-discovered X-rays, — "Why, . . . I see the bone 
as plainly as if it had no flesh on it." (Hazard's Recolle£lions 
of Olden Times, p. 286.) The peculiar capacity of Benoni 
Sweet and his descendants, to the present generation, cer- 
tainly implies some highly exceptional power. Capt. Sweet 
was a communicant of S. Paul's, having been baptized by 
Dr. MacSparran, November 28, 1724, and at the succeeding 
Easter having become a Vestryman. He died in 175 1, as 
noted later in this Diary. (Note 300.) — Updike's Narragan- 
sett Church, p. 94. 

213 '•'•Deputy Governor Robinson^ 

William Robinson, the husband of Mrs. MacSparran's sister, 
who, probably, built the original portion of the house now 
called "Canonchet" and appears to have been living there 
at this date. The Doftor commonly speaks of his brother-in- 
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naming him seems to imply displeasure in conneftion with 
the Doftor's well-known dislike of Quakerism. As Gov. Robin- 
son belonged to a family of Friends, it was not unnatural that 
he should have attended on this occasion. (Notes i8, 352.) 

214 " r"' upward Pond." 

Pettaquamscutt Pond is divided nearly into two, by a piftur- 
esque point, running into it from the west, upon which a 
club house has been lately erefted. The upper pond ex- 
tends from this point to the vicinity of the Stuart Mill. 

215 '■''Saw a Bear last nights 

The incidental manner of mentioning this event and the 
failure to dwell farther upon it illustrate the very primitive 
state of Narragansett in 1745. 

216 '"'■Our French Enemies at Cape Breton." 

After the surrender to England, in 17 1 3, of the French set- 
tlements in Nova Scotia, emigrants from them occupied the 
shores of Cape Breton Island and began to fortify Louisburg 
on a gigantic scale, thereby threatening with destruftion the 
important fisheries of New England, as privateers found re- 
fuge in that harbour. On June 17, 1745, Louisburg capitu- 
lated to a New England army, under William Peperell, 
afterwards a baronet, supported by a British squadron under 
Commodore Warren. 

217 "5 Neck." 

Boston Neck. (Note 150.) 

218 ''Paul Woodbridge." 

Probably a son of Rev. Ephraim Woodbridge, who is re- 
corded as performing a marriage in North Kingstown, in 
March, 1720-1. (Note 389.) 

219 "-Mr. Lyons." 

The Rev. James Lyons had been an itinerant of the S. P. G., 
in Conneflicut, in 1744. During the year 1745 he was trans- 
ferred to Brookhaven, New York, where he remained until 
1765. It seems probable that he was the Rev. J. Lyon, who 
subsequently exercised his ministry at Taunton, Massachu- 
setts, tradition stamping him, there, as "a most estimable 
and exemplary minister of Christ." — Updike's Hist, of the 
Narragansett Church, pp. 318, 319. 

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220 " Gone to visit at Will Brown sT 

William Brown, of Boston Neck, belonged to a family which 
emigrated from Glasgow, Scotland, and settled in Narragan- 
sett. He married Elizabeth Robinson, a sister of Deputy 
Governor William Robinson, by whom he had at least seven 
children. His grandson, Lieut. Governor George Brown (son 
of Robert), who married his cousin, Hannah, a granddaugh- 
ter of Gov. William Robinson, and died in 1836, at the age 
of ninety-one, left a large family of children, one of whom, 
Hannah, became the wife of Rowse Babcock of Westerly. — 
Updike's Hist, of the N arragansett Church, pp. 319, 320 and 
Hazard's Recolle£lions of Olden Times, pp. 147, 152. 
This incident in the Diary seems to involve a bit of attempted 
match-making on the part of Mrs. MacSparran, inasmuch as 
Mr. Will Brown had three attraftive daughters, of whom 
the eldest, Mary, born June 4, 17 10, seems to have been 
the objedl of Mr. Lyons's visit and the one whom his hostess 
had selefled for him. The youngest sister, Ruth, afterwards 
became the wife of Thomas Wickes, of Old Warwick. 

221 ^■^ Arrived from Symsbury.'''' 

Mr. Gibbs was settled at Simsbury, Connefticut, from 1744 
to 1776, being, however, on account of a disordered mind, 
replaced, as to aftive duty, after 1762, by the Rev. Roger 
Viets. Alexander Viets Griswold, the saintly bishop of the 
Eastern Diocese, was born in Simsbury, in 1766, and must 
have come, indireftly, through his excellent mother and 
grandmother, under the still surviving influence of Mr. Gibbs. 
Bishop Griswold was connedled, through his mother, with 
the Viets family, to which Mr. Gibbs's successor belonged. 

222 ^''Mr. Henry Caner." 

The Rev. Henry Caner, born about 1700, was a graduate of 
Yale College and received the honorary degree of D.D. from 
Oxford University. From 1727 to 1747 he was settled at 
Fairfield, Connefticut, and from the latter date until the 
Revolution, was reftor of King's Chapel, Boston. The Rev. 
Mr. Fayerweather records, in the Narragansett Register, his 
own attendance at the "Convention of the Episcopal clergy," 
at Boston, June 4, 1768, when the Rev. Dr. Caner preached 

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in King's Chapel from the words "Follow me." In 1776, Dr. 
Caner, being a Royalist, fled to Halifax and thence to Eng- 
land. (Some of the sacramental plate of King's Chapel is said 
to be still preserved in the Caner family, for restoration to its 
original use should the Chapel ever return to the Anglican com- 
munion.) At this time the S. P. G. appointed him a nominal 
missionary at Bristol, Rhode Island, in which honorary posi- 
tion he continued until 1782, although it is not likely that 
he ever visited the town. (Munro's History of Bristol,Y>. 151.) 
Dr. Caner died in London, in 1792. On account of his early 
entry into the ministry he has been styled "the Father of 
the American Clergy." His brother, Richard, was a clergyman 
and was settled at Fairfield and other towns in Connefticut. 
— Updike's History of the N arragansett Churchy pp. 506, 507, 

223 '■'■Mr. Millar r 

The Rev. Ebenezer Miller received the degree of D.D. 
from both Harvard College and Oxford University. He was 
settled at Braintree, Massachusetts, from 1727 to 1761 and 
is believed to have died in 1763. 

224 " Mr. Usher." 

The Rev. John Usher was born about 1689 and was a grad- 
uate of Harvard College, being a son of the Lieut. Governor 
of New Hampshire. He was ordained in 1722 and, after a 
short time spent as missionary at St. George's, South Caro- 
lina, was settled at Bristol, Rhode Island, from 1723 to 1775, 
dying on April 30th, in the latter year. The aifairs of S. 
Michael's Church, under the untiring care of Mr. Usher, 
were prosperous both spiritually and temporally. He found 
the parish weak and built it up, on such strong foundations 
that it was able to withstand the great convulsion of the 
seven years succeeding his death. During his reftorship, he 
baptized seven hundred and thirteen persons. 

225 '■'■Mr. Punderson." 

The Rev. Ebenezer Punderson was a graduate of Yale Col- 
lege and was appointed an itinerant missionary, by the 
S. P. G., for a large number of Connefticut towns from 1 7 34 to 
1763, when he was transferred to New York and settled at 
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1764, he failed to officiate for only one Sunday. The Diary 
records, in September, 1745, a visit of Mrs. Punderson and 
her son at Dr. MacSparran's. Mr. Punderson was one of the 
original grantees in the deed executed by the Indian King 
Ninigret, conveying fortyacresof land to" Westerly Church." 

226 ^^Mr. Thompson." 

The Rev. Ebenezer Thompson graduated at Yale College 
and was settled at Scituate, Massachusetts, having charge of 
several other stations also, from 1743 to his death in 1775. 
Mr. Thompson was ordained to the priesthood in the Chapel 
of Fulham Palace, by the Bishop of London, August 24, 1743. 
Being a Royalist he felt it imperative upon him, during the 
Revolution, to continue praying for the King and was im- 
prisoned therefor, dying from the accompanying exposure. 
It adds to the interest otherwise inspired by Mr. Thomp- 
son, to know that it was among his papers that this Diary 
and some of Dr. MacSparran's manuscript sermons were 
preserved, presumably as a result of the intimacy existing 
between them. One hundred years after the death of Mr. 
Thompson, a memorial service was held at his grave on 
"Church Hill," where his parsonage was situated and his 
seven daughters long continued to reside, 

227 « Mr. Beach." 

The Rev. John Beach was born about 1700 and graduated 
at Yale College, becoming, at first, a Congregational minis- 
ter. In 1732, Trinity Church, Newport, contributed to a fund 
to send him to England for Holy Orders. From 1732 to 1782, 
he was settled at Newtown and Reading, Connecticut, dying 
during the latter year. An old letter speaks of "the indefati- 
gable labours of the ever industrious Mr. Beach." At the 
time of the Revolutionary War he is said to have declared 
that he would "pray for the King, till the Rebels cut out his 
tongue." {Digest of the S. P. G. Records, p. 76.) After the 
death of the Rev. Mr. Honyraan, Mr. Beach was urgently 
invited to become reftor of Trinity Church, Newport. — 
Annals of Trinity Church, pp. 54, 100, 102 and 103. 

228 " The New England Men." 

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born in Great Britain or Ireland. In America Disse£led, Dr. 
MacSparran speaks of the "native Nov-Anglian clergy," as 
adling "against the opinions of European missionaries." {Hist, 
of the Narragansett Church, p. 238.) Mr. Honyman, although 
born in Scotland, is here said to have "joined the New^ 
England men." 

229 ^^ Dined at Capt. Jn" Brown s^ 

He was an aftive member of the Vestry of Trinity Church 
and a merchant, who fitted out privateers with Godfrey 
Malbone and George Wanton during the second Spanish 
War. He married, in 17 17, Jane, a daughter of Augustus 
Lucas and died January 2, 1764. Their daughter Jane was, 
at this time, the wife of Thomas Vernon, of Newport. 

230 *-^Mrs. Mumford upon the Hill''' 

Doubtless Mrs. William Mumford of Newport. (Note 73.) 

231 "7«" Cokr 

Son of Elisha Cole and future Judge. (Notes 72 and 83.) He 
was born in 171 5 and was now thirty years of age. Judge 
Cole's honourable career shows that, whatever the forgotten 
occasion of the Doftor's pious ejaculations, his counsels were 
duly regarded. 

232 "i/^ is to preach at Westerly ^ 

What was then called "Westerly Church" was within the 
present limits of Charleston, near "Cross's Mills." 

233 " The same tune." Note 220. 

"Miss Brown says she intends never to marry." Mr. Fayer- 
weather enumerates '■'• Miss Molly Brown," sixteen years 
later, among the dozen communicants on Whitsunday, May 
10, 1761, in the Narragansett Register. 

234"CfliA." 

The residence of John Case, Esq., Tower Hill. Mr. Lyons, 
on his return from Mr. William Brown's, on Boston Neck, 
did not stop at the Glebe House, but proceeded immediately 
to Tower Hill, on his way to Connefticut. 
234/^ " George Fowler.'''' 

It is recorded in the Narragansett Parish Register that on 
"January ye 1^' Day 175 1-2 Dr. MacSparran married George 

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Fowler, Jun' to Deborah Tanner, at ye House of Mr. Chris- 
topher Phillips in North Kingstown, their Banns being first 
duly published." 

235 "y///cf Gardiner." 

"Nov. 8'*^- 1749, Dr. MacSparran baptized a negro child, w'^'' 
he gave to Mistress Alice Gardiner, by the name of Jane." 
— Narragansett Register. 

2z(>''His Ad:" 

The Doflor was accustomed to veil unpleasant thoughts in 
abbreviations or in Latin. 

237 ''BisselPs." 

Now Hamilton village, a little to the north of Mrs. Cole's 
large farm, in North Kingstown. The Bissell family, for 
several generations, had possession of mill property, both 
• saw mills and grist mills, at this point, it being the mouth of 
the Annaquatucket River. The land was conveyed by Richard 
Smith, at first, to Richard Wharton, for mill purposes as early 
as 1686. Notwithstanding the change of name, many years 
since, to Hamilton, the designation "Bissell's" still lingers 
among the older inhabitants. It is interesting to note that al- 
though the Doftor is by no means pleased with Mr. Samuel 
Bissell's insinuations that he is in his debt, the truth being the 
other way, he yet, in accordance with the rites of hospitality 
prevailing at that day, remains to dine with him. It throws 
some light upon the disposition of this rather uncomfortable 
parishioner of Dr. MacSparran, that when, a few months later, 
the latter married Mr. Bissell's daughter Mary, to Capt. John 
Cole, the wedding occurred at the house of her brother 
Thomas. Samuel was living as late as 1755. (Note 282.) 

238 '■'■Mistress Essex." 

The Essex family was a numerous one in the part of North 
Kingstown lying on Potowomut or Greene's River and here 
was, probably, the point visited by the Doflor on this occa- 
sion and again on his way to Coeset, two or three weeks 
later. A grove and a mill site, in this vicinity, still bear the 
name of Essex. 

239 '■'■Esq" Ephraim Gardiner-'' s." 

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ner is spoken of as "uncle Ephraim," he being a half-brother 
of Mrs. MacSparran's mother and a son of Henry Gardiner. 
"Esq"'^ Ephraim" is probably to be distinguished from the 
Ephraim Gardiner mentioned in the Diary, September 24, 
1743, inasmuch as the latter lived "hard by" the Doflor's 
house (Note 1 1 2), whereas the residence of the former was at 
the northof Mrs. Cole's farm at the head of Boston Neck. It is, 
of course, possible that Mr. Gardiner may have changed his resi- 
dence, in the intervening two years. At the time of his death, 
at the age of eighty, he is called "Co/. Ephraim Gardiner." 

240 '■^ For LewUbourg.^'' Note 216. 

Rhode Island raised three hundred men to join the British 
forces at Cape Breton and go on an expedition against Can- 
ada. From this entry it appears that they sailed from New- 
port, for the seat of war, only two days before the news of 
the capitulation of Louisburg was received, 

241 *■'■ Lieut. Edward Cole," 

The third son of Elisha and Elizabeth (Dexter) Cole [Note 
72] was born about 1723 and died about 1793, being a well- 
educated and accomplished gentleman. As he was predis- 
posed to a military life, he early entered the service as a First 
Lieutenant and, afterwards, as a Captain of a company, at the 
reduftion of Louisburg. In 1759 ^^ ^^^ ^ Colonel of a regi- 
ment, under Gen. Wolfe, at the siege of Quebec. Subsequently 
Col. Cole was appointed Superintendent of Indian affairs, by 
Sir William Johnson. At the outbreak of the Revolution, un- 
like his patriotic brother. Judge John Cole, Edward adhered 
to the cause of the Crown, fleeing from Newport, then his 
residence, to Nova Scotia and dying on the island of St. Johns. 
"Ned Cole" was particularly dear to the Doftor. 

242 " Commodore Warren." 

Sir Peter Warren, Commander of the British squadron sup- 
porting the land forces at Cape Breton. The town of War- 
ren, Rhode Island, derived its name from the Commodore, 
later an Admiral. 

243 ''*■ Lewishourg" 

As already noted (Note 216), Louisburg capitulated June 17, 
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rapidly, for that period, to reach Newport in seventeen days. 
"The smoaky, noisy Joy " of this July 4th, was a sort of pre- 
monition of much more of the same sort, after the Declara- 
tion of Independence, on that date, thirty-one years later. In 
1748 Louisburg was restored to France to be again captured 
in 1758 and definitively demolished. 

244 " Samuel Browne." 

Repeatedly a Church-warden of S. Paul's and frequently 
mentioned in the Diary and the Narragansett Register (1732- 
1761). 

245 "Z)r. Bearcroft." 

The Rev. Philip Bcarcroft was the fourth Secretary of the 
S. P. G., serving from 1739 to 176 1. Mr. Updike prints, in 
his Hist, of the Narragansett Church, several letters from Dr. 
Bearcroft. 

246 ''Bentleyr 

William Bentley, a tailor, belonging to S. Paul's Parish, 
whose three children the Doftor baptized June 24, 1744. 
"Bently his wife" is, of course, equivalent to "Bentley's 
wife," not implying the presence of Mr. Bentley. 

247 ''^Benjamin Mumford." Note 53. 

It thus appears that Mr. Mumford afted as Parish Treasurer. 

248 ''Mr. Cole." 

Probably John Cole. (Notes 72 and 83.) 

249 '■'■Mrs. Gardiner." 

The wife of John Gardiner of Boston Neck, Mrs. MacSpar- 
ran's brother. (Note 15.) "Her daughter Aby" is the Abi- 
gail Gardiner (afterwards Mrs. Lodowick Updike) so often 
referred to, in the Diary, as visiting at the Glebe. 

250 '■'T' same subjeSf before." 

In this seftion of the Diary Dr. MacSparran frequently re- 
fers to an enterprise, in which he is deeply interested but 
concerning which it is now impossible to form more than a 
surmise. From its connexion with Commodore Warren and 
the phrase employed, two days later, "the Salt water Interest 
I have been longing for," it might be inferred that he was 
endeavouring to obtain an appointment to some position, like 
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contented with his lot in Narragansett is shown by several 
of his expressions, as, for example, that in the Diary, in 
175 1, upon hearing of his brother's death in Pennsylvania, 
"O yM were well settled in my own Country," and, again, 
in 1752, in America Dissected, "As the shadows lengthen 
as the sun grows low, so, as years increase, my longings after 
Europe increase also." The Diary being suspended, some- 
what abruptly, after about three months, and not being re- 
sumed until a half-dozen years later, the issue of this aspira- 
tion is lost in oblivion, beyond the faft that the Dodlor did 
not change his position, if that were his desire. 

251 '■'■ Joseph Northrupy 

This name appears in the list of freemen in Kingstown, in 
1696, its bearer being, no doubt, a progenitor of the pre- 
sent one. Several of the family were land-holders in North 
Kingstown, in the upper part of Boston Neck, (Notes 99 and 
296.) The first Joseph Northrup appears to have been an 
uncle of the Harry Northrup, mentioned earlier in the 
Diary. 

252 ^^Jn" Smith's Farm.'' 

This farm is frequently mentioned in the Diary and was 
situated in Boston Neck, extending from Narrow River to 
Narragansett Bay, not far from opposite the Glebe House. 
There was a long succession of John Smiths, the present 
being the third of the line in Rhode Island. 

253 "/ dreamed last night''' 

A curious illustration of the coexistence of a high order of 
intelligence and enlightenment with a childish superstition 
about dreams. Dr. MacSparran frequently alludes to dreams, 
as again on the day next but one after this. (Note 304.) A 
belief in dreams was, however, charafteristic of the time. 
The curious minuteness with which Archbishop Laud notes 
his dreams in his Diary is an instance of the same belief 
carried to a great extreme 

254 " Salt water interest." 

Has this some conneftion with the Doftor's petition to Com- 
modore Warren, who sailed on the high seas? (Note 250.) 

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255 '■^Junt Kynion." 

Mrs. Kenyon is mentioned in the Diary, on July 13th, fol- 
lowing, as a sister of Mrs. Almy, Mrs. MacSparran's mother. 
Her Christian name was Elizabeth and she was a daughter 
of John and Abigail Remington. 

256 "J^r. Apthorp's Covert 

One of the missionaries of the Society, soon after the Doc- 
tor's death, was the Rev. East Apthorp, who was settled at 
Cambridge, Massachusetts, from 1759 ^° ^7^\- His death 
occurred in Cambridge, England, in 1816, where he was a 
Fellow of Jesus College. As Mr. Apthorp was born in Bos- 
ton, Massachusetts, in 1733, it is not improbable, that it is 
his father who is here alluded to and who must have been a 
citizen of that city about that time, although, perhaps, later 
of London. A half-dozen years later, November 3, 17 51, Dr. 
MacSparran notes, in the Diary, "I sealed up my Letters 
for London in a Cover to Charles Apthorp Mercht." 

257 ^^ King George Ninigret." 

Indian Chief or "King "at Charlestown, Rhode Island. On 
one of the gravestones in the old Indian Burying Ground 
on Fort Neck, Charlestown, is the inscription, "Here lies 
the Body of George, the son of Charles Ninigret, King of the 
Natives." He was born in the summer of 1732 and lived only 
six months. This George Ninigret of the Diary was the 
younger brother and successor of the Charles mentioned on 
the stone, and is the one to whom the Doftor refers, in the 
Diary, July 12, 1745, as having given the original twenty 
acres for the church. In the deed of conveyance* of the larger 
trafl, drawn in 1745-6, King George is styled "Chief Sachem 
and Prince of the Narragansett Indians," who "for and in 
consideration of the love and affcftion," which he had for 
"the people of the Church of England in Charlestown and 
Westerly . . . conveyed ... to the use of the Society" 
forty acres of land in Charlestown, Rhode Island. {Digest of 
the Records of the S. P. G., p. 4.7, Note.) George Ninigret 

• yls Dr. MiicSparran spiaks, in thic Diary, on July 14, 1 745, of "my 
Dr. for y Deed," it is probahU thiat Ninignt's deed, as no-iv existing, 
executed only six monl/ts later, is thie Doilofs composition. 

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became Sachem in 1735 and was succeeded by his son, 
Thomas, in the summer following the giving of the above 
deed. In 1765 King Thomas Ninigret petitioned the S. P. G. 
successfully to establish, in Charlestown, a free school, clos- 
ing his letter with the following words : — "that when time 
shall be with us no more, that when we and the children 
over whom you have been such benefadlors shall leave the sun 
and stars, we shall rejoice in a far superior Light." In 1750, 
Dr. MacSparran married John Anthony, an Indian man, 
to Sarah George, an Indian woman, "the widow and Dow- 
ager Queen to George Augustus Ninigret, deceased." The 
land above conveyed adjoined the Champlin farm, in Charles- 
town. — Updike's Hist, of the Narragansett Church., pp. 223, 
512. 

258 ^''Necessity obliged me." 

This remark shows that it was an exception for Dr. Mac- 
Sparran to join in the farm labour. 

259 ''Rates.'" 

Exemption from taxation was a favourite idea of the Doftor. 
In the Narragansett Register is the following entry: — "At 
the Church of St. Paul on Sunday y<= 24^ of Nov''> 1751, after 
Divine Service, the Gentlemen of y^ Vestry of said Congre- 
gation stayed and considered y^ Complaint of y^ Rev** Dr. 
MacSparran, Pastor of this Church, seting forth, that he is 
greatly aggrieved and bro't under oppression by the Asses- 
sors or Rate makers of South Kingstowne within y^ said Doc- 
tor's Cure." After due consideration, two very temperate 
resolutions were passed, in accordance with the Doftor's 
complaint. "Are to pray for," in the Diary, refers, of course, 
to the petition upon the subjedl, to be offered to the As- 
sembly, by the clergy. 

260 ''■My Journey." 

The Dodlor intended proceeding to Providence, after com- 
pleting his duties at Cowesett and old Warwick, but was 
prevented by illness from carrying out his purpose. 

261 "Mrs. Godfrey." 

Col. Daniel Updike's second wife, Anstis Jenkins, the "Mrs. 
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died in May, 1744, during Dr. MacSparran's absence in Bos- 
ton, where he preached at King's Chapel, on the twentieth 
of that month. (See Diary, June 3, 1744, where her funeral 
sermon is mentioned.) The third wife of Col. Updike was 
Mary, widow of William Wanton, of Newport, colonial 
Governor in 1732 and 1733, who died in December of the 
latter year, aged 63 years. She was the daughter of John and 
Elizabeth [Carr] Godfrey and was born March 23, 1702. Mrs. 
Godfrey was, therefore, Col. Updike's mother-in-law. Mrs. 
Updike was a sister of Capt. Caleb Godfrey, who was ad- 
mitted a Vestryman of Trinity Church, Newport, in 1737. 
She survived her husband. Col. Updike, many years. (Up- 
dike's Hist, of Narragansett Church, p. 296. Mason's Annals 
of Trinity Church, Newport, pp. 52, 53.) "Her daughter, Ruth 
Wanton," who is mentioned, along with herself, in an entry 
of the Narragansett Parish Register, September 26, 175 I, was 
a step-daughter. Gov. Wanton having been first married to 
Ruth Bryant. 

262 '-'■Litle Molly JVantonT 

Evidently a daughter of Mrs. Updike, by her first husband. 

263 "<S(9 much company fatigues me at one time." 

The presence, in the Glebe House, of a dozen callers at 
once, illustrates very well the social habits of the period as 
well as the interest of the Dodlor's friends in his illness. In 
the present solitariness and remoteness of the spot, a resident 
could hardly expeft as many visitors in a month. 

264 ^^Ninigret's Deed.'' Note 257. 

This deed was not finally executed by George Ninigret 
until the 14th of the following January, certain obstacles, 
referred to later, having been thrown in the way. The Church 
of England had been established in Charlestown and a church 
crefted previously to the setting oifof that town from Wes- 
terly in 1738, the edifice being, therefore, commonly called 
the Westerly Church. This accounts for the clause in the 
deed, "whereon the Church of England in said Charlestown 
now stands." When, at length, the church went down, the 
property was held by the Champlin family, by possession. — 
Cole's History of Washington and Kent Counties, pp. 631-3. 

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265 ''Col. ChamplirCsr 

Col. Christopher Champlin of Charlestown, whose farm ad- 
joined the church. He was one of the three trustees to 
whom forty acres of land were conveyed, for the use of the 
Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, by King George 
Ninigret. The estate of the Champlins is said to have con- 
tained 2000 acres. Col. Champlin was married, by Dr. Mac- 
Sparran, to Hannah Hill. (Note 105.) Christopher, their 
eldest son, was born February 7, 1730-1, and removed at an 
early age, to Newport, where he became a distinguished citi- 
zen, dying April 25, 1805. Christopher Grant Champlin, a 
son of the latter, was the proprietor of the fine old colonial 
house, known as the Champlin House, on Mary Street, New- 
port. He married Martha Redwood Ellery, granddaughter 
of Abraham Redwood, the patron of the Redwood Library. 
He became a Member of Congress and a United States Sena- 
tor and died in 1840, In personal appearance, he is said to 
have greatly resembled the Duke of Wellington and on sev- 
eral occasions was taken for him. — Updike's Hist, of the 
N arragansett Churchy pp. no, 1 1 1 . 

266 ''Col Stantonr 

Col. Joseph Stanton, of Charlestown, was a man of much 
influence, being a member of the first town council, re- 
peatedly a deputy and the proprietor of a traft of land, four 
and a half miles long and two miles wide. He is said to have 
kept forty horses and as many slaves. The old Stanton House 
is situated on the Post Road, a little to the east of Cross's Mills. 
Col. Stanton was a son of Joseph Stanton of Quonocontaug 
and a grandson of Thomas Stanton of Stonington, Connefti- 
cut. He died in 1752. 

267 " Remorasy 

An obsolete synonym of obstacles. 

268 "J present to ye C r^." 

Commodore Warren. The present is described in detail, 
below, in the entry of August 21st. We have here a curious 
example of the good Doftor's simplicity of charafter, in the 
attempt to conceal the identity of the recipient of his gift 
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by the present a more favourable treatment of his application. 
(Note 250.) 

269 " Contents, 6 Hams, etc." 

"Take of the best fruits in the land in your vessels, and carry 
down the man a present, a little balm, and a little honey, 
spices, and myrrh, nuts, and almonds." Gen. 43 : 11. 

270 ''To Town." 

To Newport, then the most important place in the Colony. 
Letters are said to have been, in those days, sometimes sent 
from England, addressed "New York, near Newport." 

271 '^ Fernon''s vessels." 

Probably Thomas Vernon of Newport, a merchant of the 
firm of Grant & Vernon, and the "eldest Church Warden" 
of Trinity Church. He was born May 31, 1718, and married, 
September 9, 1741, Jane, daughter of John Brown, merchant, 
of Newport. His second wife, Mary Mears, he married May 
20, 1766. Mr. Vernon was Royal Portmaster from 1745 to 
1775, Register of the Court of Vice-Admiralty for twenty 
years, and Secretary of the Redwood Library. He suffered 
imprisonment for his principles as a Tory. (Mason's Annals 
of Trinity Clurch, p. l04.)Thomas Vernon's brothers, Samuel 
and William, were also merchants. He died May i, 1784, 
leaving no issue. 

272 ''•Mrs. G'ldley" Note 159. 

This was the third wife, and widow of John Gidley, Eliza- 
beth, daughter of Capt. John Brown, of Newport. — Mason's 
Annals of Trinity Church, p. 45. 

273 "5<7//v Freebo(l\." 

Miss Sarah Frecbody, of Newport, was a daughter of John 
and Sarah Frecbody, having been born Odlober, 1721. In the 
February after this entry she was married to Peleg Brown, 
son of Capt. John Brown, and thus became a sister-in-law of 
Mrs. Gidley, with whom she is mentioned. She died in 1806. 
(Mason's Annals of Trinity Church, p. 77.) It is recorded, in 
the Narragansett Parish Register, that on September 19, 
1748, "Dr. MacSparran baptized by Immersion, in Petta- 
quamscut Pond, Sarah Brown (alias Frecbody) wife of Mr. 
Pclcg Brown, of Newport." (Note 119.) 

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274 ^'■Nep Dyre." 

Mrs. Penelope Dyre was the wife of Charles Dyre. Their 
daughter, Hannah, mentioned just below, was born in South 
Kingstown, February 13, 1736-7. The name Edward Dyre, 
Jr., appears in the list of Freemen in Kingstown, in 1696. 
This name is quite uniformly spelled as above, in the early 
records. After the division of the town in 1722-3, the Dyer 
family resided mainly in North Kingstown. 

275 '■'■Robert Browned 

Robert was a son of William and Elizabeth Brown (Note 
220), and was born July 28, 1718. His wife's name was Sarah 
and their four children were George, William, John and 
Franklin, Mrs. Brown dying immediately after the birth of 
the last. The eldest son became the well-known Gov. George 
Brown, having inherited a large estate from his uncle Thomas 
Brown. Gov. Brown was married, April 4, 1768, to his cousin 
Miss Hannah Robinson, a grandniece of Mrs. MacSparran. 
— Updike's Hist, of the Narragansett Church, pp. 319, 320. 

276 "Penelope Gardiner ^ 

A daughter of Ephraim and Penelope (Eldred) Gardiner, 
born Oftober 15, 17 16. She was a cousin of Mrs. MacSpar- 
ran. (Notes 112, 239.) 

277 '■'' Dorcas." 

Dorcas Gardiner, the elder sister of Penelope, just men- 
tioned, was born January 31, 1713-14. 

278 "Mrs. EastonP 

Mrs. Waite Easton, wife of James Easton, of South Kings- 
town, was the mother of Sarah, Mary and Mercy, born 
1735-40. The Eastons were a well-known Newport family. 

279 "John GoodhodyP 

John Goodbody, of North Kingstown, was married by John 
Sheldon, Justice, to Anna Rose, of South Kingstown, April 
4, 1765. 

280 "Capt. Morris., White., &c." 

These visitors were, probably, from Newport, both names 
occurring among the parishioners of Trinity Church, it hav- 
ing been ordered, April 7, 1738, "that the Church Wardens 
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Nichols) White. It is likely that the title of "Capt." in the 
Diary applies to White as well as Morris. 

281 ''Clark's." 

John Clark was a tanner, on the Island of Conanicut. In 
baptizing John Clark, "a little boy," son of this John, De- 
cember 6, 1748, Dr. MacSparran notes that the father "came 
from Lisburne, Ireland," the scene, in the previous century, 
of Jeremy Taylor's labours and happy retirement. Mr. Clark 
had died previously to the above date. 

282 " Capt. Cole." 

Capt. John Cole is to be distinguished from his cousin, John 
Cole, Esq., (Note 83) being thirteen years his senior, having 
been born in 1702. Capt. Cole was twice married, having 
five children by his first wife, Ann, and six by his second, 
Mary. The Narragansett Register records, "Feb. 7''', 1745, 
Dr. MacSparran married Capt. Jn° Cole to Mary Bissel, 
both of North Kingstown, at the house of her brother, 
Thos. Bissel. (Note 237.) Many witnesses," and "Sunday, 
August 3'^'*, 1747, Dr. MacSparran baptized the son of Capt. 
Jn° Cole and Mary his wife, an infant by the name of 
Thomas." Capt. John Cole inherited from his father, Wil- 
liam, his "homestead farm," at the head of Boston Neck, the 
same having belonged to his grandfather, the original John 
Cole, the father of William and Elisha. (Note 72.) Capt. 
Cole lived to old age. — Updike's Hist, of Narragansett 
Church, pp. 105-107. Cole's Washington and Kent Counties, 
P- 397- 

283 " Jeremiah Lippet." 

He was the second son of Moses and Ann (Whipple) Lippet 
^(Note 77), and was born January 27, 171 1. He married 
Weltham (or Welthan) Greene, daughter of Richard, and 
was Town Clerk of Warwick from 1 742 to his death in 1776. 
— Updike's Hist, of Narragansett Church, p. 372. 

284 ''His mo'' in Law Howland." 

This implies that Jeremiah Lippet must have been married 
previously to his union with Welthan Greene, whose mother 
died before her father and could not have become Mrs. How- 
land. No record of the fad is, however, at hand. 

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285 ''OldMr.Lippetr 

Moses Lippet, father of Jeremiah. (Note 77.) He lived only 
three months after this visit, dying December 12, 1 745. 

286 ^'Mo$es Slocum:' 

A resident of North Kingstown, married in 1746 to Frances 
Watson. 

287 " William Anderson^ son of Tho' Andenon^ my Uncle s Ten- 
antr 

This uncle was, undoubtedly, the Rev. Archibald MacSpar- 
ran, a clergyman of the Presbyterian Church, in the County 
of Londonderry, Ireland. See accompanying Sketch of Dr. 
Mac S parr an. 

288 "/« Ballynessr 

Probably the name of the Rev. Mr. MacSparran's estate, in 
the vicinity of Dungiven, or of the village where he lived. 

289 " Joseph Hulir 

The original Quaker preacher of this name was born in 1652. 
He married Experience Hooper and died after 1709. The 
first meeting for worship of the Quakers of Falmouth, Mas- 
sachusetts, where he was then living, was held at his house 
in 1 68 1. By the time of the establishment of Narragansett 
Monthly Meeting, in 1699, Joseph Hull had removed to 
"King's Town," Rhode Island, and early "First Day meet- 
ings" were held at his dwelling, which was described as "a 
very large, wide house," supposed by some to have been near 
Wickford but probably farther south within the limits of the 
present South Kingstown. In 1702 Mr. Hull is recorded to 
have given six shillings towards building a Quaker Meeting- 
House at Mashapaug. Notwithstanding his peaceable princi- 
ples as a Friend, Joseph Hull seems to have possessed a con- 
tentious and combative disposition. While he was living in 
Massachusetts, he beat the Sheriff for persecution of him as 
a Quaker and was fined therefor fj^ a fine subsequently 
abated. After his removal to " King's Town," in consequence 
of a difference beween a certain Jack Turner and himself 
and some dissatisfaftion expressed by Friends respefting the 
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his house to that of William Gardiner, the great-uncle of 
Mrs. MacSparran. Both Gardiner and Hull are spoken of as 
"retaining so much of the Old Adam that they received and 
justly deserved the frequent admonition of their watchful 
brethren." If this Joseph Hull was the preacher whom Dr. 
MacSparran heard at Desire Gardiner's funeral, he must have 
been over ninety years of age. It is more probable, therefore, 
that it was his son Joseph or one of his two grandsons of the 
same name, although it docs not appear certain that they were 
ministers. 

It is plain that the Doflor was by no means as friendly to 
Quakerism as he would have been had he lived a century 
later and seen it in its more inviting forms. In speaking in 
America DisseSied (Updike's Hist, of Narragansett Church, pp. 
510, 511,) of the introduftion of the sedl, he remarks "no 
sooner did their preachers appear in Rhode Island, but they 
found many of the posterity of the first planters too well 
prepared for the reception of that pestilent heresy. ... I 
entered on this mission in 1721 and found the people not a 
tabula rasa, or clean sheet of paper, upon which I might 
make any impression I pleased ; but a field full of briars and 
thorns and noxious weeds, that were all to be eradicated, be- 
fore I could implant in them the simplicity of truth," All 
the clergy of that day had the same general method of allu- 
sion to the Quakers. See the titles of traftates against the 
seft in Leslie's Works, some of which the Rev. John Check- 
ley afterwards edited : The Snake in th?e Grass, or Satan Trans- 
formed into an Angel of Light, and Primitive Heresy Revived 
in the Faith and Practice of tl:e People called Quakers. The un- 
happy extravagances of the Quakers, both as to doftrine and 
condufl, in early days, had little in common with the quiet- 
ism we associate with the gray-garbed Christians now bear- 
ing the name. (Note 194..) 
290 " Great IVilliam Gardiner s only Daughter .^ Desire.''^ 

Thus distinguished from '■'■Long William Gardiner." (Note 
168.) He could not have been Mrs. MacSparran *s brother, 
William Gardiner, who had several daughters living at this 
date, but was, very probably, the " W"" on the Hill," to whom 
the Doftor alludes September 20, 174+. (Note 143.) 

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291 ''^ Abraham Dennis's Marriage." 

This marriage had plainly occurred the same day, while the 
Dodlor was officiating at Conanicut. It is not recorded in the 
Narragansett Parish Register, no entries having been made 
in it during the summer and autumn of 1745. Dennis was a 
Portsmouth and Newport name, it being recorded that, about 
that time, Capt. John Dennis drew a half of a pew in Trin- 
ity Church, in the latter town. 

292 ^'■Samuel Mumford." 

Eldest son of Benjamin Mumford, born January 20, 1723. 
(Note 53.) He was married by Dr. MacSparran, Oflober 25, 
1750, to Elizabeth Goddard, "the Banns of Marriage duly 
asked, sans objeSlion." In 1757, the last year of the Doftor's 
life, he baptized a child of Samuel and Elizabeth Mumford, 
by the name of Elizabeth. 

293 "5^w Gardiner's Horse.** 

Samuel Gardiner was a son of Ephraim and Penelope Gardi- 
ner and was born January 16, 1719-20. It is recorded in the 
Narragansett Register that Mr. John Gardiner was married, 
December 13, 1772, to Miss Sarah Gardiner, eldest daugh- 
ter of Capt. Samuel Gardiner. "The bride was given away 
by her father about half an hour after four o'clock, in the 
presence of sundry witnesses." It is probable that these two 
Samuels were identical. 

294 ''Went to Tho!. Phillips* s." 

Thomas Phillips was the eldest son of Samuel Phillips, who 
died in 1736, aged eighty-one, and is believed to have been 
the first of the family in North Kingstown. Thomas and his 
brother Christopher (Note 169) were among Do£lor Mac- 
Sparran's strongest friends, being often mentioned in this 
Diary and the Narragansett Parish Register. The Phillips 
family was one of the main pillars of S. Paul's Church, giving 
it a warden and a vestryman, in the persons of Samuel and 
his son Thomas, as early as 1 7 1 8, three years before the arrival 
of Mr. MacSparran. There formerly stood, in the north-east- 
ern part of the village of Wickford, a fine old house, the resi- 
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son of Christopher and nephew of the Thomas mentioned 
in the Diary, but it, some years since, fell into utter decay 
and has been removed. This estate was once considered the 
handsomest in Wickford and was famous, in its day, for its 
beautiful flower gardens. — Updike's Hist, of the Narragan- 
sett Church, pp. 120-125. 

295 ^^yustice Gardiner^ s." 

This was, no doubt, Judge Ezekiel Gardiner. It is probable 
that his residence at this time was the old Gardiner house, 
still standing at the corner, on the Post Road, about a quarter 
of a mile east of the original site of the Narragansett Church, 
where the MacSparran monument now marks the spot. Nich- 
olas Gardiner, son of Nicholas and second cousin to Mrs. 
MacSparran, deeded, about 17 14, "a farm on the great 
plain," to his brother Ezekiel, believed to be the Justice 
Gardiner of this entry in the Diary. The Gardiner house, 
just alluded to, is on the eastern border of the Great Plain. 
This corner is still popularly called "Pinder Zeke's Corner," 
after some Ezekiel Gardiner, it is supposed, whose mother 
was of the Pinder family, a somewhat prevailing one in North 
Kingstown, in past days. Such devices were very common in 
the Narragansett country and were often necessary to dis- 
tinguish those of the same name. Judge Gardiner's residence 
would thus be direftly on the way from Thomas Phillips's 
to the Doftor's own house. It is stated, in the town records 
of North Kingstown, that, after the confiscation of the farm of 
George Rome, the Toryof Boston Neck, in 1776, itwassold to 
Judge Ezekiel Gardiner. Ezekiel Gardiner, Jr., who married 
Susannah Congdon, in 1764, was, probably, a son of Justice 
Gardiner and may have been the one known as" Pinder Zeke." 

296 " Joseph Northrupy 

This Joseph Northrup, who married Mary Congdon, was, 
probably, a son of Henry, commonly called "Harry" North- 
rup. (Note 99.) He does not appear to be the same Joseph 
Northrup who was a tailor and worked at his trade at Dr. 
MacSparran *s house (Note 251), having his boy with him. 
There is a record of the birth of two children of Joseph 
Northrup (son of Henry) and of Mary his wife. 

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297 '■'■Capt. Richard Mumford" Note 64. 

It proved to be true that Capt. Mumford had died at Cape 
Breton, Lieut. Edward Cole, the Doftor's young friend, being 
promoted to be captain in his place. 

298 H 

Nearly five blank pages follow this entry ^ suggesting that this 
portion of the Diary was not continued in some other book but 
closed abruptly with this entry. There is, therefore, no account 
of the wedding of the foseph Northrup referred to, two or 
three days before, and, singularly enough, no record of it in the 
Narragansett Parish Register, as the DoSior made no entries 
during the summer and autumn of 1745. There is a gap of 
nearly six years between this instalment of the Diary and the 
opening, in 175I) of the next part extant. 

299 *■*■ Joseph Jesse.^^ 

The Jesses were near neighbours of Capt. Benoni Sweet. In 
the town records the name is spelt Jess and was, no doubt, 
pronounced in one syllable with even the Doftor's orthog- 
raphy. Jess was married on June 25, 1744, ^^ North 

Kingstown, to Martha Haxson. The first name, in the record, 
has been burned away, but is, presumably, Joseph. The births 
of Elizabeth and Mary Jess are also recorded. 

300 '-'•Capt. Sweet's Funeral.''' Note 212. 

The Narragansett Parish Register records that on "July 20*''» 
175 I, Dr. MacSparran, after preaching his funeral sermon, 
buried Capt. Benoni Sweet in his Family Burying Place, and 
in his 90'*^ year." Job Sweet, who was a descendant, probably 
a grandson, of Benoni, early in life removed to South Kings- 
town, settling near Sugar Loaf Hill and the present village 
of Wakefield, where his descendants still live and praftise 
natural bone-setting. During the Revolutionary War he became 
so well known that he was called to Newport to attend 
some of the wounded French officers. Somewhat later he 
was .summoned to New York to reset the dislocated hip of 
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Benoni, one of the sons of Dr. Job Sweet, removed to Leba- 
non, Connefticut, where he and his sons have continued to 
praftise. — Updike's Hist of the N arragansett Church, pp. 94, 
95- 

301 "yl^r. Greaves' s."" 

The Rev. Matthew Graves of New London. He came to 
S. James's Church from the neighbourhood of Chester, Eng- 
land, in 1747, as a missionary of the S. P. G. and proved to 
be a man of discretion and ability, his ministry there being 
long, happy and useful. At the outbreak of the Revolutionary 
War, he refused to desist from praying for the King and was, 
therefore, driven out of the church, fleeing in his surplice and 
taking refuge in the woods, where he had a large congrega- 
tion. In 1779, he appears to have abandoned the contest and 
repaired to New York, as a refugee, where he died in 1780, 
Mr. Graves was a truly good man and greatly beloved and 
respedled. He was noted for cheerfulness, contentment and 
simplicity. His temper and habits were social and he was fond 
of tea and indulged in copious potations of it. His stipend was 
small and his circumstances often straitened, but nothing dis- 
turbed his tranquillity or shook his confidence in God. He 
was a bachelor, his house being kept by his sister. Mr. Graves 
was the founder of the churches at Norwich and Hebron. 
The Rev. John Graves, a brother of Matthew and vicar of 
Clapham, in Cheshire, England, was sent, by the S. P. G., 
to be Reflor of S. John's Church, Providence, 1754. — Digest 
of the S. P. G. Records, London, 1895, p. 853. Updike's 
Hist, of the N arragansett Church, pp. 262-264. 

302 *■'■ Hannibal.'" 

A slave of Dr. MacSparran, frequently mentioned in the 
Diary. On account of his intradlableness, his master was 
obliged to send him to be under the care of his friend, Mr, 
Martin, of Conanicut. About three months after this entry, 
in curious contrast with the sentiments of the present day, 
the Dodor mentions, incidentally, "I wrote ... to Mr. 
Martin to sell Hannibal." 

303 ^^Samuf/ Casey, J^r." 

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riages in North and South Kingstown in 1737 and 175^- The 
births of four children of Samuel Casey, Jr., (born about 1724) 
are recorded in the South Kingstown Records, The connec- 
tion of these Caseys with the distinguished family of the name, 
which bought of the Indians the farm in Boston Neck, owned 
by the late Gen. Thomas Lincoln Casey, lends an interest 
to this notice by Dr. MacSparran. Gen. Casey's great-great- 
grandfather, Thomas Casey, was a first cousin of Samuel Casey, 
Jr., both being grandsons of the original Thomas Casey of 
Newport, born about 1636. (Note 315.) 

304 "^« ugly Dream.'''' Note 253. 

Dr. MacSparran gave more heed to dreams than would have 
been expefted. But we may recall that within a year of the 
date of his birth "witches" had been executed on Gallows 
Hill, in Salem, and that the Magnalia of Cotton Mather had 
appeared during his childhood. 

305 " L'lfe of Cleaveland" 

Probably an English version of VHistoire de M. Cleveland^ 
Fils naturel de Cromwell, ou le Philosophe Anglais, written be- 
tween 1732 and 1739 '^y ^^ Abbe Prevost, author of Manon 
Lescaut. Prevost was born at Artois in 1697, lived for some 
time in England and died in 1763, near Chantilly. 

306 " Te Stuart Family ^ 

It is evident that the trend of the book was against the Roy- 
alists, rather than the Roundheads. 

307 ^^ Rhode Island chhmen." 

Here used in the restrifted sense of the island only and 
equivalent to '•'■Newport churchmen." 

308 " Ye young Peter Bourse.''^ 

Afterwards the Rev. Peter Hours. He was a son of Peter 
Bours, Esq., of Newport, a man of influence both in the 
Church and in the community. He graduated at Harvard 
College and was settled at Marblehead, Massachusetts, from 
1752 to the time of his death, at the age of thirty-six, Feb- 
ruary 24, 1762. The Rev. James Honyman, Reftor of Trinity 
Church, Newport, had died about a year before the present 
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of the Rev. Thomas Pollen in 1754. ^^- MacSparran's vig- 
orous opposition to lay-reading is distindlly out of harmony 
with the order and sentiment of the present day, when more 
than forty licensed lay-readers are reported by the Bishop of 
Rhode Island. It is interesting to note, in this conneftion, 
that, on Sunday, February 27, 1763, the Rev. Mr. Fayer- 
weather, the successor of Dr. MacSparran, was married in the 
church at Newport, to Mrs. Abigail, the widow of the Rev. 
Peter Bours of Marblehead. (Note 1 11.) — Digest of the S. 
P. G. Records, p. 852. Mason's Annals of Trinity Churchy 
Newport, p. 121. Narragansett Parish Register, February 27, 
1763- 

309 " Te Ferry." 

The South, or Narragansett, Ferry, connefting Narragansett 
with Newport, via Conanicut. 

310 '■'■Dr. Avery s Letter." 

Who this opposer of the establishment of bishops in America 
was, has not been ascertained. It is possible that he was the 
father of the Rev. Ephraim Avery, who was graduated at Yale 
College, ordained by the Bishop of London, settled at Rye, 
New York, in 1765, as a missionary of the S. P. G., and 
found dead near his house in 1776, being said to have been 
"murdered by the rebels, . . . for not praying for the Con- 
gress," although his death was otherwise explained by Dr. 
Seabury. (Digest of the S. P. G. Records, pp. 75, 855.) That 
the Society was not responsible for the delay in sending bishops 
to the American colonies is shown by the subscriptions of 
;^looo each, for this objeft, by two of its Presidents, Arch- 
bishops Tenison and Seeker, as well as by those of other 
large suras by some of its friends. Dr. MacSparran, also, con- 
ditionally bequeathed his farm in Narragansett for the pur- 
pose. — Id. p. 745. 

311 ''IVatiorCi." 

John Watson, at an early day, settled on a farm on Tower Hill. 
He married two daughters of the original George Gardiner, 
and died in 1728. "Watson's farm" remained in the family 
for five generations and many of its members lie buried upon 
it. — Cole's History of U\is/ iti^ton and Kent Counties, p. 532. 

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312 "21? Sermon^ 

"On Sunday, August 4'''' 175 1, a discourse was delivered by 
Dr. MacSparran, from Hebrews v, 4., styled 'The sacred Dig- 
nity of the Christian Priesthood Vindicated,' [The Sacred 
Dignity of the Christian Priesthood Vindicated, in a Dis- 
course on Hebrews, v. 4. Delivered at St, Paul's in Narra- 
gansett, on Sunday, August 4, 175 1. By the Rev. Dr. Mac- 
Sparran. Newport, Printed by J. Franklin, MDCCLII. l6mo. 
pp. 46.] which was printed at Newport. The objeft of the 
sermon is thus described by himself, . . . 'The native nov- 
anglian clergy of our church, against the opinion of Euro- 
pean missionaries, have introduced a custom of young scholars 
going about and reading prayers, etc., when there are vacan- 
cies, on purpose that they may step into them, when they 
get orders ; yea they have so represented the necessity and 
advantage of the thing, that the very society connive at, if 
not encourage, it. This occasioned my preaching, and after- 
wards printing, the enclosed discourse.' The publication of 
this discourse, by an Episcopalian presbyter, produced a great 
excitement among the clergy of the non-Episcopal churches, 
who falsely apprehended it was direfted against them." The 
incident led to a war of pamphlets, in which Dr. MacSparran 
does not seem to have taken any part. — Updike's Hist, of 
Narragansett Church, pp. 238-9. For the answers which this 
pamphlet called out see Bibliography of Episcopal Controversy 
in Checkleys Life, edited by Rev. Edmund H. Slafter, pp. 
271, 272. 

313 '■^Te eldest ch^ in y' Colony." 

Trinity Church, Newport, founded 1 698, where Peter Bours 
(Note 308) had been lay-reading. 

314 "y/ Combing" i.e. wool. 

All the processes of carding, spinning or weaving seem to 
have been carried on in the Doftor's house, only scouring 
and pressing being done at a fuller's. 

315 *■*■ Gideon Casey." 

Gideon was a younger brother of Samuel and was born about 
1726. (Note 303.) He and his wife, Jane, lived in South 

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Kingstown, children being born to them in 1747, 175 i and 

316 ^^ Suckatash." 

Green corn and beans cooked together, it being a dish, as 
well as a name, borrowed from the Narragansett Indians. 
The ordinary orthography is succotash^ the Indian form being 
msickquatasb, said to mean "maize boiled whole." 

317 '■'■Mary Chappel" 

She was a widow, whose name occurs frequently in the Nar- 
ragansett Parish Register, In several cases she is mentioned 
in the Diary as working at the Glebe House, apparently as a 
tailoress. Mrs. Chappel became a communicant in 1756. Her 
daughter Esther was the wife of William Davis, who lived 
in the Glebe House after the death of Dr. MacSparran. 
On April 4, 1763, the Rev. Mr. Fayerweather, having been 
lately married (Note 308), records, in his usual quaint fashion, 
in the Parish Register, "Mr. W'"- Davis and family moved 
away from the Parsonage House, where they had lived with 
Mr. F. for two years, in great unanimity and Peace." 

318 ''Dr. Moffat r Note 46. 

Dr. MofFatt is no longer mentioned, as before, as a "Scotch 
Doftor," having, no doubt, in the meantime, become familiar 
by frequent visits. It was in this year, 175 I, that the enter- 
prise of manufacturing snufF was aftually begun. — Cole's 
History of Washington and Kent Counties, p. 395. 

319 "7«°- Buiir 

He was a son of Isaac and Rebecca Bull, having been born 
in South Kingstown May 15, 1732, and seems to have been 
visiting at the Doftor's, No connexion appears between these 
Bulls of South Kingstown and Capt. Henry Bull of Newport. 

320 " Capt. CampbeL" 

Master of a vessel sailing from Newport. The Doftor refers 
to him repeatedly in this part of the Diary. 

321 "7 Dollars:' 

This is the first mention, in the Diary, of any money except 
English. These were, undoubtedly, Mexican "Pillar Dol- 
lars," American silver dollars not being coined until 1794. 

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In a memorandum scribbled on the cover of the Diary, the 
Doftor mentions "no good pillard Dollars of Mexico . . . 
of the full weight of Seventeen Penny halfpenny weight," 
thus showing his familiarity with this kind of money. The 
Captain was, probably, expedled to fulfil the Doftor's commis- 
sion at some port where colonial currency was not passable. 

322 " Tw" Gardiner^ s wife on ye Hilir 

To be distinguished from Mrs. MacSparran's brother, John 
Gardiner, who lived on the Bonnet farm, near South Ferry. 
This one may be of the family of " W™- on the Hill." (Note 
H3-) 

323 "C^/. Updike" Notes 10 and 37. 

324 ^■^Amos.'" 

Amos Gardiner was a son of John Gardiner (Note 15) and a 
nephew of Mrs. MacSparran. He was born March 27, 1729, 
and baptized on the following September 7th. About two 
months after this entry (Odlober loth), Doftor MacSparran 
married him to Sarah, a daughter of Capt. Joshua Bill (Note 
126), not quite with the approval of his father (See below 
Wednesday, August 14th). Amos Gardiner, after his mar- 
riage, lived at the "Four Chimney House," now demolished, 
direftly west of the South Ferry. The Amos Gardiner who 
accompanied Gilbert Stuart to the latter's birth-place, shortly 
before his death, /. e. about 1826 (Updike's Hist, of Narra- 
gansett Churchy p. 257), may have been a grandson of the 
above. It is plain that Amos Gardiner was a favourite nephew 
of the Dodtor. 

325 *-*-Peleg Brown" 

He was a son of Capt. John Brown, of Newport (Note 229), 
born 1709, died 1756. He married, February 20, 1745-6, 
Sarah Freebody (Note 273), a younger sister of Mrs. Capt. 
Wilkinson. (Note 119.) Peleg Brown was, for many years, a 
Vestryman of Trinity Church. 

326 "y^ visit at Hunter s." 

Andrew Hunter, subsequently one of the Wardens of Trin- 
ity Church, Newport. He served on the vestry until 1771, 
when it is recorded, in the Parish Records, that "Mr. An- 

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drew Hunter, in consequence of the infirmities of age, asked 
to be excused from longer serving as a vestryman ; when it 
was unanimously voted that the thanks of the church be 
given to Mr. Hunter for his past good services to the church." 
(Mason's Annals of Trinity Churchy pp. 149, 150.) It does not 
appear that Andrew Hunter was of the family of the distin- 
guished Dr. Wm. Hunter who did not emigrate from Scot- 
land to Newport until 1752. 

327 ^'' Samuel FreebodyT 

He is first mentioned, in the Records of Trinity Church, 
Newport, in 1750, and last, as one of the Wardens, in 1788. 
His name is joined with that of John Freebody (Notes 119 
and 273) in such a way as to suggest that the two were 
brothers. 

328 "-Joseph Llppet\r 

Fourth son of Moses and Ann Lippet (Note 77) of Old 
Warwick. He was born September 4, 1715, and married 
Lucy, a daughter of Capt. Thomas Brown, of Rehoboth, 
Massachusetts, February 19, 1746. He had two sons, Joseph 
and Thomas, and five daughters. 

329 "A/r. Auchmuty of New Tork." 

The Rev. Samuel Auchmuty, afterwards reftor of Trinity 
Church, New York, was a son of Robert Auchmuty, Judge 
of Admiralty at Boston and a descendant of an ancient Scot- 
tish family. He was born in Boston in 1725 and graduated 
at Harvard College in 1742. He was taken by his father to 
England, where he was ordained by the Bishop of London 
in 1747 and appointed to the charge of a Negro mission in 
New York, probably as an assistant minister of Trinity 
Church. On the death of the Reftor, Dr. Barclay, in 1764, 
Mr. Auchmuty became Redlor. In 1749, ^^ ^^^ married to a 
daughter of Richard Nichols, Governor of the Province of 
New York. Among his children was Sir Samuel Auchmuty, 
a distinguished General in the British army. Another son of 
the Rev. Samuel Auchmuty, Robert Nichols Auchmuty, a 
Warden of Trinity Church, resided in Newport, where he 
died January 28, 181 3. Arthur Gates Auchmuty, whom Dr. 
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to Ann Dickinson, in South Kingstown, September 3, 1734, 
is believed to have been an uncle of the Rev. Dr. Auchmuty. 
The latter expefted to be consecrated Bishop of New York 
and was often addressed as Bishop by his afFeftionate parish- 
ioners, but his plan of going to England for the purpose was 
frustrated by the outbreak of the war of the Revolution, He, 
therefore, continued in the faithful discharge of his duties 
as Reftor, until the occupation of New York by the American 
Army, when he closed the churches of the parish and re- 
paired to New Jersey. Upon the occupation of the city by 
the British he returned, having undergone many hardships 
on the way, and, after preaching a single Sunday in S. Paul's, 
succumbed to illness and died March 4, 1777, being buried 
under the altar of that chapel. The objeft of Dr. MacSparran's 
letter to Mr. Auchmuty was, probably, the promotion, in 
some way, of the publication of his sermon against lay-read- 
ing. (Note 312.) — Mason's Annals of Trinity Church, New- 
port, pp. 176 and 177. Updike's Hist, of the Narragansett 
Church, pp. 148-153. 

330 ^^Rich'' Nichols Esq' Postmaster." 

As this is the same name as that of the Governor, Mr. Auch- 
muty's father-in-law, it seems likely that this Richard Nichols 
was a relative of Mrs. Auchmuty, The Dodlor's letter was 
sent under cover to the Postmaster, apparently, to save the 
heavy postage of the day, in accordance with a custom re- 
peatedly referred to, by him, in the Diary and elsewhere. 

331 *•'■ Isaac Fowler." 

A resident of North Kingstown, who married Mary Hop- 
kins, January 15, 1 720-1, a daughter of Samuel and Susanna 
Hopkins of South Kingstown. 

332 " Widow Shearman." 

Mrs. Sherman was the widow of Abiel Sherman and the 
mother of Hannah Sherman, whom Dr. MacSparran married 
to Jeremiah, son of Samuel Brown, December 9, 1742. 

333 " Kit Fowler ye Taylor." 

In an "Account of Books lent by Dr. MacSparran," attached 
to this Diary, it is noted that he loaned Religious Courtship to 
Xtopher Fowler, March 26, 1750, an amusing example of the 

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kind of reading for young people, in vogue at that day. Other 
volumes of this lending library are named in the Sketch of 
Dr. MacSparran prefixed to this volume. 

334 *' To remove her by y' Illness" 

Mrs. Ailmy (Almy) survived, after this date (August 27, 
175 1,) until February 1763, more than five years longer than 
Dr. MacSparran and nearly eight after the death of her 
daughter, the Dodor's wife. (Note 24.) 

335 " 7^" ^'^° children^ viz* Jn' iff Molly." 

The children of Mrs. MacSparran's eldest brother, John 
Gardiner (Note 15), and his second wife, Mary Taylor, to 
whom he was married December 13, 1739. Mary, here called 
Molly, was baptized Oftober 28, 1744. She never married. 
John was baptized May 8, 1748, and married Sarah Gardiner, 
by whom he had issue. — Updike's Hist, of Narragansett 
Church, pp. 354-5. 

336 '■'■At Block Island Henry Gardiner s" 

There were at least three adult Henry Gardiners living in 
South Kingstown, at this period, and this one is thus desig- 
nated for distinftion. 

337 '-'■ Molly Robinson" 

A daughter of Gov. William Robinson, by his second wife, 
Abigail, Mrs. MacSparran's sister. (Note 18.) She was born 
Oftober 8, 1736, and was thus in her fifteenth year. The 
mare she was riding belonged to her grandmother, Mrs. Almy, 
the mother of Mrs. MacSparran. (Note 24.) 

338 '■'■ Bathsheba Martin." 

A daughter of the Doftor's particular friend, John Martin, 
Esq., of Conanicut Island. (Note 98.) She was baptized, as 
an adult, by Dr. MacSparran, with her four brothers and 
sisters, at their father's house, February 9, 1743-4. 

'■^ Tom Siveet." 

Thomas Sweet was the third son of Capt. Bcnoni Sweet, of 
North Kingstown. (Notes 212 and 300.) He was born in 
August, 1703, and married Tabitha Bcntley, February 9, 

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340 "C(?/. Northrup's Land^ Notes 99, 251 and 296. 
"Col. Northrup" is, no doubt, the "Harry Northrup" of 
the earlier part of the Diary. Both Jess's and Northrup's 
swamps lay upon Mill, or Mattatoxet, River, above the Stuart 

Mill. 

341 ''The Miiir 

The mill, upon the site of which the SnufF Mill of Gilbert 
Stuart fame was soon afterwards built (Note 318) at the head 
of the Narrow River and in view of the Dodlor's farm. 

342 " Tho' Gardiner's wife." 

Thomas, the eldest son of John Gardiner, Mrs. MacSparran's 
brother (Note 15) was born March 11, 1725. Mr. Updike 
{Hist, of N arragansett Church, p. 125) states that he "died 
without issue." The Town Record, however, shows that, in 
accordance with this entry, he had a son Fred, born August 
24, 175 I. The child did not, probably, survive his father. 

343 " Capt. BulPs . . . wife." 

Capt. Henry Bull, of Newport, was a great-grandson of the 
first settler, of the same name, and was born November 23, 
1687. He was a man of strong charafter and attained an in- 
fluential position, becoming Attorney-General, Speaker of 
the House of Representatives, a member of the Massachusetts 
and Rhode Island Boundary Commission and Chief Justice 
for Newport County. He died December 24, 1771. Henry 
Bull, of the fifth generation from the first settler, was a dis- 
tinguished citizen of Newport, dying in 1841. He wrote a 
series of valuable papers, known as Memoirs of Rhode Island. 
— Mason's Annals of Trinity Church., pp. 62 and 325. 

344«P^«/M/^5." 

A son of Nathaniel and Mary Niles, born May 16, 1721. 
The swamps which the Doftor searched for maples fit for 
cider-mill screws, a few days before, lay to the north of his 
house. The one he now explored lay to the south of it. Paul 
was a nephew of the Rev. Samuel Niles for several years 
Congregational pastor in South Kingstown. 

345 " Tom Dickson." 

A son of Anthony and Hannah Dickson. (Note 82.) The 

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Doftor mentions, Oftober 7, 175 1, "Jemmy Dickson," an 
older brother of Thomas. (Note 364.) The baptisms of 
younger brothers, Robert and William, are recorded in the 
Narragansett Register. 

346 ''Nathaniel Sheffieldr 

A son of Joseph Sheffield, born in Kingstown, May 1 1, 
1714. (Note 354.) 

347 "y^ note of Christopher Phillips' s."" 

A curious glimpse at the confidential relations existing be- 
tween a beloved reftor and a trusted parishioner, suggesting 
the somewhat stern and impetuous reputation of the one and 
the mild mercifulness of the other, although, himself, an 
owner of slaves. 

348 '''•'Jeremiah Pierce^ a child." 

In the Narragansett Parish Register, under this date, it is 
recorded, "Dr. MacSparran baptized Jeremiah Pierce, a 
child, Son of one Pierce, who died at sea, and Peggy Martin 
his Mother^ On a preceding date the Doftor recounts how, 
on his return from Old Warwick, he "got up early, set out, 
oated at Pierce's, etc." The house of Mrs. Pierce was at 
Coeset. 

349 " Peggy Martin y' was." 

Perhaps the reason oftheDoftor's frequently mentioning Mrs. 
Pierce by her maiden name was the faft that he had known 
her father, Robert Martin, in Ireland, "Nuffield, alias Lon- 
donderry" being presumably near the scene of his own 
early life, at Dungiven. In the "Acc't of Books lent by 
Dr. MacSparran," attached to the Diary, is found the entry, 
"Peggy Martin of Coeset, i vol. of Family Instruftor, Feb- 
ruary, 1 749-" 

350 "r^ Parting Gate." 

The gate on the Post Road at the entrance of the old Up- 
dike estate, about a mile north of Wickford. The present 
north gate is, no doubt, on the site of the one where Col. and 
Mrs. Updike bade adieu to Dr. MacSparran, that September 
Sundav afternoon. 

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351 ^^ Robert Hazard's Jack of N. Kingstown." 

So called to distinguish him from other Robert Hazards, in 
South Kingstown. (Note 84.) There were, however, at least 
a half-dozen of this name in North Kingstown, at this period. 

352 ^^Mr. Robinson's Funeral.'''' Notes 18 and 213. 

Gov, Robinson died September 19, 175 1. The Doftor means 
that he went to the funeral on the last day mentioned, viz., 
September 21st. As Mr. Robinson was a Friend, Dr. Mac- 
Sparran did not officiate, but was present merely as a relative. 

ZSZ ''L^S, besides ly.ior 

The same apparently large sums which have been previously 
explained as due to the depreciated paper currency. (Note 2 5.) 

354 *■'■ His Fa'' in Law Everet ye Baptist Teacher" 

Dr. MacSparran uses the term "father-in-law" here in the 
popular sense, instead of "step-father," in which relation the 
Rev. Daniel Everett stood to Nathaniel Sheffield (Note 346), 
having been married to Mary Sheffield, his mother, July 12, 
1739. Her first husband, Joseph Sheffield, the father of Na- 
thaniel, came from Portsmouth. Daniel Everett was, for 
many years and probably as long as it existed, pastor of the 
first Baptist society organized in South Kingstown, it being 
connected with the "Six Principle Baptist" association. 
Great dissensions prevailed in the organization, in the latter 
part of his ministry, and the society never recovered from its 
division, finally becoming extinft. The reason of Mr. Ever- 
ett's being in need was, doubtless, the impoverishment of his 
church, by the secession of a large part of its members to 
form a Separatist body, in 1750, under Elder David Sprague. 
The name of Elder Everett appears frequently, in the South 
Kingstown Records, as a performer of marriages. (Cole's 
History of Washington and Kent Counties, pp. 591-2.) It is 
curious to note the Doftor's reluftance to accord any title 
but "ye Baptist teacher" to the Rev. Mr. Everett even while 
his compassionateness was leading him to praftise towards 
him such generosity. 

355 ^'■Xtopher Robinson" 

Christopher, eldest son of Mrs. Robinson, by her second 

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husband. Gov. William Robinson, was born December 31, 
1727, and was married, by Dr. MacSparran, November 30, 
1752, to Ruhamah Champlin "at ye house of Col. Christo- 
pher Champlin, Father to ye Bride, in Charlestowne." (Notes 
18 and 265 and Narragansett Parish Register at latter date.) 

356 '■^Toung Xtopher Phillips's" Notes 169 and 294. 
Christopher Phillips, Jr., in 1749, married his own cousin, 
Mary, daughter of Thomas Phillips, and died in 1757. Be- 
fore the birth of his son Christopher, whose baptism the Doc- 
tor here records, he had become the father of Samuel, known 
as Major Phillips, who commanded one of the five boats in 
Barton's expedition to Rhode Island, for the capture of Gen. 
Prescott, in 1777. 

357 ''Te Shipyard fieUr 

As the tide-water of the arm of the sea, known as Narrow 
River, formed the eastern boundary of Dr. MacSparran's 
farm, it may well have been that small vessels had, at some 
period, been built upon the beach. 

358 " Two young Irishmen" 

The faft of the Dodor's Irish birth seems, on more than one 
occasion, to have attrafted Irish visitors and wayfarers to his 
house. 

359 ''So. Carolina." 

There seems to have been an exceptional degree of reciprocity 
between South Carolina and Narragansett, as well as other 
parts of Rhode Island and New England, in those days. The 
Rev. Wm. Guy was transferred from South Carolina to the 
charge of S. Paul's in 17 17 and, in the following year, re- 
transferred to South Carolina. The Rev. John Usher, so long 
settled at Bristol, Rhode Island, had been previously a mis- 
sionary at S. George's, South Carolina. The Rev. Stephen 
Roe was transferred from South Carolina to Boston in 1743. 
Commissary Garden, with whom Dr. MacSparran was in 
correspondence, lived in Charleston, South Carolina. The 
Doftor's successor, the Rev. Samuel Faycrwcathcr, came from 
Charleston, South Carolina. — Digest of tie S. P. G. Records, 
pp. 18, 853-4. J<1 arragansett Parish Register, July I 8, 1 763. 

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360 '"'■ Zephaniah Browned 

Youngest son of Samuel Browne, the Doftor's parishioner 
(Note 244.), born December 23, 1721. He became the father 
of six children, born 1756— 1768. 

361 *■'' George Hazard^ Son of George^ deceased.^* 

Among the numerous George Hazards of the day, this one 
cannot, with any certainty, be identified. Circumstances in- 
dicate, however, that he was the one whom Dr. MacSparran 
married, November 7, 1752, to Sarah, third daughter of Col. 
Thomas Hazard, of Boston Neck. This George was a son of 
George Hazard of Boston Neck (Note 16) and a grandson 
of "Old Thomas Hazard." (Note 88.) It is known that the 
elder George had died when his youngest son, Thomas G., 
was but four years old, (Hazard's RecolleBions of Olden Times, 
p. 209.) As Dr. MacSparran often bought hides and had 
shoes made from them at his house, there is nothing improb- 
able in his sometimes supplying even his well-to-do neigh- 
bours with the latter. Mr. Updike {Hist, of Narragansett 
Church, p. 247) notes that the above younger George Haz- 
ard was styled, by way of distindlion, "Little Neck George," 
from his owning and occupying the "Little Neck Farm." 

362 ''Old Esq' Helme's widow." 

Mrs. Helme was originally Sarah Niles and was married July 
21, 1709, to Rouse Helme, who died August 28, 175 1. Their 
eldest son, James Helme, Esq. (Note 69), was born May 7, 
1710. 

363 ''Mr. Jn' Berriman." 

A clergyman of London, born 1689, and the Reftor of S. 
Alban's, Wood Street, until his death, December 8, 1768. 
In literature he is known as the author of eight very learned 
sermons, preached at "Lady Moyer's Lefture" and pub- 
lished in 1741, exhibiting a critical view of more than a 
hundred Greek manuscripts of S. Paul's Epistles, many of 
them not previously collated. His still more distinguished 
brother. Dr. William Berriman, was an eminent scholar and 
a Fellow of Eton College. There is an extraft from a letter 
of "Dr. Berriman" in Updike's Hist, of Narragansett Churchy 

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p. 261. This was, undoubtedly, John Berriman, as his bro- 
ther William had died previously to the date of this letter. 
It is noticeable that the letter to Dr. MacSparran, presuma- 
bly from London, was one hundred days in transit. 

364 " yemmy Dickson^ 

A son of Anthony Dickson of North Kingstown. (Notes 82 
and 345.) James Dickson married Ann, a daughter of Ben- 
jamin Mumford (Note 53), by whom he had a son Anthony. 
By the Doftor's reference to his return home, with a letter 
to Capt. Wilkinson of Newport, it is plain that "Jemmy" 
was then living in that town. 

365 "Mr. Robert Hamilton" 

In a letter written by the Doftor to "the Hon. Col. Henry 
Gary, Esq.," Ireland, August 20, 1752, forming a part of 
America Disseiled, the opening sentence is as follows: "By 
the hands of Mr. Robert Hamilton, son of Bellyfattan, near 
Strabane, I did myself the honour a few years ago, of writing 
you a letter." There can hardly be a doubt that the Robert 
Hamilton here mentioned and the bearer of that letter were 
the same. Strabane is in the county of Tyrone, about twenty 
miles south of Londonderry. — Updike's Hist, of Narragan- 
sett Ckurch, p. 483. 

366 ''^arah Bilir Note 126. 

Dr. MacSparran entered this marriage, in the Narragansett 
Parish Register, in a large engrossing hand, quite different 
from ordinarily, as if in triumph and to mark a signal event, 
doubtless from his sense of the unreasonableness of John 
Gardiner's objedion to the marriage (Diary, August 14, 175 I, 
and Note 324), as well as his peculiar affeftion for the young 
bridegroom. After this little ripple in the placid pool of fam- 
ily life, all four of the persons most interested, reftor, father, 
bride and groom, have slumbered tranquilly for a century, 
side by side, in the Narragansett Churchyard. 

367 ''■Ye Re¥ Mr. Brown of Piscary 

The Rev. Arthur Browne was born at Drogheda, Ireland, 
in 1700, educated at Trinity College, Dublin, and ordained 
by the Bishop of London in 1729. He was settled at Provi- 
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Portsmouth (or Piscataqua), New Hampshire, and Kittery, 
Maine, from 1736 to 1773, in which year he died, suddenly, 
in June, at Cambridge, Massachusetts. {Digest of the S. P. G. 
Records^ pp. 852-3.) Mr. Browne left four sons, one of 
whom, Marmaduke, was Redlor of Trinity Church, New- 
port. Arthur Browne was so highly esteemed, as Reftor of S. 
John's Church, Providence, that a glebe was purchased for 
him in Providence Neck and presented to him in fee simple. 
When, after some time, he was persuaded by Gov. Dunbar 
to remove to New Hampshire, he was parted with very re- 
luftantly and honourably redeeded the glebe and the house, 
which is still standing, for the use of future ministers of the 
congregation. (Updike's Hist, of N arragansett Church, pp. 
409, 410.) Mr. Browne is said to be the "Reftor" (or 
"Parson") in Longfellow's Tales of a Wayside Inn, — The 
Poet's Tale. — Digest of the S. P. G. Records, p. 852. 

368 ^^ Coronation Day" 

George II. was crowned Oflober 1 1, 1727, and died Odober 
25, 1760. 

369 ''Rhode Is/and Fort." 

Although the name of Rhode Island was early extended to 
the colony on the mainland, it is here, undoubtedly, used in 
its restricted sense of the island upon which Newport is sit- 
uated. The first battery in Newport harbour was ordered to 
be built on Goat Island, at the expense of the "CoUeny," 
in 1702, "sufficient to mount twelve pieces of ordnance or 
cannon," and was named "Fort Anne" for the Queen. In 
1730, after George II. ascended the throne, the name was 
changed to "Fort George" and, again, at the outbreak of 
the Revolution, its armament having been increased to forty 
cannon, to " Fort Liberty." This work was the " Rhode Island 
Fort" mentioned in the Diary. The first work near the site 
of the present "Fort Adams" (itself not planned and erefted 
until 1820) was a slight battery thrown up in 1776, at which 
date, also, appears to have been begun the defence at North 
Point, since known as "Fort Greene." — Gen. Cullum's His- 
torical Sketch of the Fortification Defences of N arragansett Bay, 
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370 *■*■ Pompions.^^ 

This now obsolete variant of pumpkins introduces us to an- 
other of the produfts of the Dodlor's farm. 

371 '■'■Made a shift to do without spe^acles^ 

This shows a remarkable preservation of eyesight, in the 
darkness of a thunderstorm, at the age of fifty-eight. 
See Oftober 27th, following. 

372 ''A Bill of I SO St-'L" 

The faft that this sum was "sterling" and yet so large sug- 
gests that it was a semi-annual payment upon the Dodlor's 
stipend, which the Proceedings of the Society show to have 
been ;^ioo per annum, viz. £^0 as missionary at Narragan- 
sett and ^^30 for officiating at Warwick. £^0 would have 
amounted, at this period, to not less than ^^600 in the depre- 
ciated paper currency of the Colony. 

373 ^^ Hannah Minturn" 

A daughter of Jonas Minturn and a granddaughter of Samuel 
Brown, the Doftor's well-known parishioner (Note 244), 
the former having been married to Penelope Brown, by Dr. 
MacSparran, December 21, 1732. Hannah Minturn re- 
mained unmarried, dying at an advanced age in Newport. 
Her brother, William, became a distinguished merchant and 
the founder of the well-known Minturn family of New York. 
Even fifty years since the number of his descendants had 
reached one hundred and forty. The ancestor of the Minturns 
in Narragansett, where he was one of the early settlers, was 
a native of England. — Updike's Hist, of Narragansett 
Church, pp. I 3 1-3. 

374"%.." 

This name is indistinflly written and may be Sligo, in either 
case the locality being now unknown. It is, possibly, Yago (or 
Yawgoo), the Indian name of the locality now known as Exe- 
ter, still preserved in the designation of a manufaduring ham- 
let in the southeast part of that town and within a few miles 
of the Glebe House. 

375 '■'■Borden i Ferry." 

Same as that now known as "Bristol Ferry," connefting the 
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of the village of Bristol. It is called "Bristol Ferry" by the 
Dodlor on the following day. 

376 "On^ Mr. Low el of Boston r 

No doubt a member of the subsequently distinguished family 
descended from Percival Lowell, a merchant, who emigrated 
from Bristol, England, in 1639 and died in 1665. The first 
of the family to attain distinction was John Lowell, statesman 
and jurist, but this "one Mr. Lowel" could not have been 
he, as he was born only in 1743 and was, thus, but eight 
years of age at this date. 

377 *■'■ Several old Friends.''^ 

The circumstances attending Dr. MacSparran's residence in 
Bristol, before settling at Narragansett, are related in the 
sketch of his life, prefixed to this volume. It is not likely 
that, after the expiration of a third of a century, there re- 
mained many of his original friends except those of the 
younger generation. Perhaps Obadiah Papillion, at the house 
of whose widowed step-mother, a relative, he first tarried 
after his arrival at Bristol in 1718, was among those who now 
greeted him, Mr. Papillion having been a member of the first 
vestry of S. Michael's Church in 1724 and surviving until 
1760, when he died in South Carolina. The first baptism 
upon the Church records of Bristol was performed by Mr. 
MacSparran, — that of Alice Woodale, adult, 172 1. — 
Munro's The Story of the Mount Hope Lands, Providence, 
1880, p. 145. 

378 "Z/V/^ Nath Bosworth.'' 

One of the original Wardens of S. Michael's Church, defied 
in 1724, was Nathaniel Bosworth, being, doubtless, among 
the Doftor's "old friends." This lad was, probably, a grand- 
son of Mr. Bosworth or one of his own younger children, as 
he appears to have been married a second time in 1727. The 
original Nathaniel Bosworth, one of the early settlers of Bris- 
tol, was born in Hingham, Massachusetts, in 165 1, and was 
chosen deacon on the organization of the Congregational So- 
ciety in Bristol, its first religious services being held in his 
house, lately the residence of Mrs. James De Wolfe Perry. 
It seems likely that Nathaniel Bosworth, the first Warden 

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of S, Michael's, was among those who adhered to Mr. Mac- 
Sparran after the troubles of 1718-19. — Munro's The Story 
of the Mount Hope Lands, pp. 91, 126 and 145. 

379 '■'Billy Gallopr 

Probably a grandson of Capt. Samuel Gallup, who had been 
an aftive man in the affairs of Bristol at the close of the seven- 
teenth century and the beginning of the eighteenth. His son, 
William, was married by Mr. MacSparran, in Bristol, Decem- 
ber 19, 1721, showing that he was one of his adherents and 
that he sent to Narragansett for his services. He died at 
Cambridge in 1774, in his eightieth year. "Billy" can hardly 
have been otherwise than his son. He appears to have died 
in Bristol three or four months after his call upon the Doftor. 
(Munro's The Story of the Mount Hope Lands, p. 122.) Capt. 
Samuel Gallup led a company in the expedition against 
Canada in 1690. 

380 '■''Capt. Harrison." 

Capt. Peter Harrison was an accomplished architedl of New- 
port, exercising his profession in Boston likewise. The origi- 
nal front of the Redwood Library, a beautiful example of 
Roman Doric, was his work, as well as the Newport City 
Hall, the Jewish Synagogue and, probably, some of the finer 
specimens of domestic architecture still preserved in New- 
port. (Mason's Annals of Trinity Church, Newport, p. 114.) 
Peter Harrison designed also King's Chapel, Boston, and 
Christ Church, Cambridge. 

381 "Black Sagathee.'' 

Sagathy is a mixed woven fabric of silk and cotton, called 
also sayette. 

382 " Extraii of Out Services and ye Notitia Parochialis." 
Note I. 

This was probably what wc should now style the Doftor's 
'•Parochial Report" to the Society at London. 

383 "Silvester Robinson." 

Silvester Robinson was a son of Gov. Wm. Robinson (Note 
18) and a resident of South Kingstown. He was born in 1734 
and was married in 1756 to Alice Perry. He had four chil- 

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dren, James, William, Mary and Abigail, and died in 1 809, 

384 " Charles Apthorp^ Merch\" Note 256. 

This Mr. Apthorp is unquestionably the same as the one 
alluded to in this Diary on July 12, 1745, when, however, 
he appears to have been in America rather than London, the 
letter to Commodore Warren being enclosed to him. But it 
is quite possible that these letters, too, were merely enclosed 
to him at Boston, to be forwarded to London. 

385 ''Ruth and her Son." 

Probably slaves. The name Ruth is not quite distindl. 

386 "i/zW* 

Col. Updike. (Diary, Oftober 21 and 28, 175 1.) 

387 "^^14:8 in old Tenor." Note 25. 

This statement affords ground for a comparative estimate of 
the current value of the colonial paper currency and sterling 
money. To meet the £1^0 sterling Col. Updike seems to have 
agreed to payj^332 in paper, one hundred and six Mexican 
dollars and fifty bushels of Indian corn. This appears to in- 
dicate a ratio of one to twelve or thirteen. Two years previ- 
ously, in 1749, the ratio was one to eleven. 

388 " One Willet Laraby." 

It is for the credit of North and South Kingstown that the 
name of Laraby does not appear upon its early records, thus 
implying that this criminal was an outsider. The praenomen, 
Willet, is, however, a well-known family name of the former 
town. The cropping of the ears as a penalty for crime has 
been long disused in Rhode Island as a barbarism. 

389 ''Paul Woodbridge^ Tanner" 

The Rev. Ephraim Woodbridge is recorded as performing a 
marriage in Kingstown in 1 7 20-1. It is probable that this 
Paul was of the same family, perhaps his son. The Wood- 
bridges were a well-known clerical family, the Rev. John 
Woodbridge having been the first pastor of the first church at 
Andover, Massachusetts, and his three sons, John, Timothy 
and Benjamin having all been ministers, the latter in Conneft- 
icut. New Hampshire, Massachusetts and Bristol, Rhode Is- 
land. — Munro's The Story of the Mount Hope Lands, pp. 1 2 5-6. 

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390 " Tom IVeeks" 

Thomas Wickes, of old Warwick, was born September 8, 
171 5, and was the fifth son of John Wickes and third in de- 
scent from the John Wickes who was one of the first settlers 
of Shawomet and an associate with Samuel Gorton. This 
original John Wickes is said by Callender to have been 
"slain by the Indians, 1675, a very ancient man," although 
but sixty-six years of age. Thomas Wickes, whose publishment 
to Ruth Brown (Note 220) is here recorded, left two daugh- 
ters, one of whom, Elizabeth, became the wife of Benjamin 
Gardiner, who resided in Middletown and was a nephew 
of Mrs. MacSparran. Mr. Wickes was repeatedly a represen- 
tative and a senator of the colony and proved a wise, firm 
and temperate counsellor in the troublous days preceding the 
Revolution. He was one of those who joined Gov. Wanton, 
in 1775, in a protest against the formation of an "army of 
observation." He died in 1803 and is declared, by the late 
Hon. Elisha R. Potter, to have been "firm in purpose, cour- 
teous in manner, scrupulously exa£l in all his worldly rela- 
tions and fond of the social intercourses of life." — Updike's 
Hist, of N arragansett Churchy pp. 381-3. 

391 ^'•Making Tea in ye Study. ''^ 

Dr. MacSparran's study occupied the lower part of the wing 
at the south end of the Glebe House, the portion, within a 
few years, demolished. 

392 ''Sam^ Albror 

The names of Samuel Albro and his wife Isabel are included 
in "A List of Persons Baptized by Mr. Honyman before he 
went to England last," [1708] entered on the records of 
Trinity Church, Newport. (Mason's Annals of Trinity C lurch, 
Newport, p. 17.) The name of Mr. Albro appears also in the 
first entry in the Narragansett Parish Register, "April ye 
14th, 1718," where it is recorded that Samuel Albro was 
elcded a Church Warden. The Samuel Albro referred to in 
the Diary was a grandson of the former, born 17 16 and 
probably the father of Samuel Albro, 'Jr., who was married 
to Jane Cole, December 3, 1758, in North Kingstown. There 
was, also, a Rev. Samuel .Mbro, who performed many mar- 

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riages in North Kingstown from 1757 to a much later date. 
The Cap(. Samuel Albro mentioned below by the Doftor 
seems to have been the same as the one here named. 

393 ^^Shanticut." 

Meshanticut, which is the full Indian name of the locality, 
is so called from the Meshanticut Brook, which runs from 
the north into the Pawtuxet River, between the present 
villages of Natick and Pontiac. The name is still preserved 
in "Meshanticut Park," a platted village of suburban resi- 
dences. 

394 " J/r. Xtopher Lippet." 

Christopher, the third son of Moses and Ann (or Anphillis) 
Lippet (Note 77), was born November 29, 17 12, and was 
married to Catherine Holden, a daughter of Anthony, Janu- 
ary 2, 1740. His son. Col. Christopher Lippet, was a prom- 
inent officer in the Revolutionary War, being in command 
of a regiment at the battles of Trenton and Princeton. After 
the close of the war. Col. Lippet was appointed Major-Gen- 
eral of the State Militia. The Narragansett Parish Register 
contains a record of the baptism by immersion, in Warwick 
Cove, of Katherine, wife of Christopher Lippet of Shanticut, 
by Dr. MacSparran, August 9, 1746. (Note 193.) — Updike's 
Hist, of Narragansett Church, pp. 372-4. 

395 ^^Mr. Knox lead my Horse.'''' 

Over the ford called "the Weir," across the Pawtuxet River, 
at about the present site of "Arnold's Bridge," at Pontiac. 
There were Knoxes living in Cumberland, at this period. 

396 '■'■Bridge near his saw-mill.''^ 

This is quite plainly a bridge over the North Branch of the 
Pawtuxet, indicating, apparently, that Christopher Lippet's 
saw-mill was near the present village of Lippitt. 

397 " Over ye Force.'''' 

The chirography here is somewhat obscure, but the Do6lor 
seems to use the provincial English word for waterfall. 

398 ''Daniel Greene'' s Bridge.''^ 

This was situated at or very near the present Centreville 
Bridge over the South Branch of the Pawtuxet. Even as late 

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as the breaking out of the Revolutionary War there were but 
three houses where Ccntreville now is, one of them being 
the dwelling of Daniel Greene, a son of Job (born August 
24, 1656), a long, low building of one story, burned only 
about twenty years since. Daniel Greene died November 24, 
1798, at a few months over a hundred years of age. — Cole's 
History of Washington and Kent Counties^ p. 963. 

399 '■'■Ye French Town." 

The south-western portion of East Greenwich and a part of 
the western seftion of North Kingstown were styled French- 
town and the region is still known by that name, by reason 
of its having been settled by Huguenot families. (Note loi.) 
The names of Lucas, Ayrault, Le Moine (Mawney), Chad- 
sey, Tourgee, Tarbeaux (Tarbox), Fry and Nicol (Nichols), 
in the vicinity, have long borne witness, or still bear it, to the 
French associations of the locality. Frenchtown comprises the 
richest land in East Greenwich, being still noted for the pros- 
perity of its farmers and testifying to the Gallic discrimination 
of its settlers. — Potter's Early History of Narragansett, Provi- 
dence, 1835, PP- I05i 3H- 

400 " Davis ye Fuller 5" 

It was customary, in those days, to carry domestic woollen 
fabrics, such as this "flannel," to professional fullers for press- 
ing. The present village of Apponaug was, for many years, 
known as "Fulling-Mill," such an establishment having been 
erefted there, as early as 1696, by John Micarter, of Provi- 
dence, on Kickemuit Brook. — Cole's History of Washington 
and Kent Counties^ p. 943. 

401 '■'■Ye great Plain." 

This extensive flat region lies at the westward of the present 
village of Allenton, in North Kingstowp. 

402 " Ye Road by / C/;^" 

The easterly and westerly road, on which the Narragansett 
Church then stood and the MacSparran Monument now 
stands, is said to have been laid out to conned with the old 
"North Ferry," at the foot of "Barber's Heights," on Boston 
Neck, and to form a highway towards Connedicut and New 
York. The anticipated popularity of the thoroughfare was, 

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probably, the occasion for the now apparently strange seleftion 
of a site for the new church and its pradlical abandonment, 
after the suspension of the "North Ferry," must have been 
one occasion for the removal of the church to Wickford in 
1800. At present the highway, soon after passing the monu- 
ment towards the west, is lost in drift ways, closed by gates 
and running through private property, and the whole region 
is dotted by old houses, in many cases deserted and falling 
into dilapidation. 

403 "y// 2^^' postage." 

To carry on a correspondence, in those days, was no inex- 
pensive matter. With even due allowance for the deprecia- 
tion of the colonial paper currency, thirty shillings could not 
have been less than fifty or sixty cents of our present money. 

404 ^'^ New London Derry in Pensi/vania." 

As Dr. MacSparran's family came from the county of Lon- 
donderry, in Ireland, it seems probable that this town, where 
his brother established himself in Pennsylvania, was settled 
and named by people from that locality. 

405 ^^My only Bro'^ Jrchibald" 

In Letter II [1752] of America Z)^^^^^' (Updike's Hist, of 
the Narragansett Church, p. 526), Dr. MacSparran writes, 
"My brother and his wife died a year ago last summer, at a 
short distance of time from one another. ... I assisted him 
to the amount of much more than he brought with him. . . . 
I was against his coming away, and was in England when he 
landed in Pennsylvania." 

406 "/« my own Country." 

See latter portion of the "Sketch of Dr. MacSparran " at the 
beginning of this volume. 

407 '■'' A yard &' half a la mode" 

A la mode (or mode) was a thin, glossy, black silk, used for 
hoods, scarfs, etc. This had, probably, been procured by the 
Doftor to be made into stoles. 

408 " Jn' Gardiner on ye Hill." 

He is thus distinguished from Mrs. MacSparran's brother, 
John Gardiner of Boston Neck, and perhaps others of the 
name. 

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409 " Had a cag of Cyder.'''' 

With this "cag of Cyder," the second instalment, and the 
last that is known to exist, of Dr. MacSparran's Diary comes 
to an end. The Doftor lived nearly six years longer, until 
December 5, 1757- 



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Index of Persons 



ADAMS, Capt., 27. 
Albro, Mrs. Isabel 
k. (w. of Samuel), 1 70. 
Albro, Samuel, 170. 
Albro, Capt. Samuel, 65, 66, 

67, 170, 171. 
Albro, Samuel, Jr., 170. 
Albro, Rev. Samuel, 170. 
Alford, James, 124. 
Allen, Benjamin, 43. 
Allston, Mrs. Theodosia 

(Burr), 149. 
Almy, Mrs. Abigail, 3, 19, 
20, 27, 30, 32, 33, 34, 36, 

38, 39) 40, 42, 43) 79) 80, 
92, 117, 119, 120, 138, 
158. 
Almy, Capt. Job, 2, 3, 14, 

15) 79- 
Anderson, Thomas, 41, 145. 
Anderson, William, 41, 42, 

Anthony, Elizabeth, xxxii. 
Anthony, John, 139. 
Apthorp, Charles, 34, 63, 

138, 169. 
Apthorp, Rev. East, 138. 
Arnold, Anne, 97. 
Arnold, Gov. Benedidl, 84, 

94) 97- 
Arnold, Benedidl, 73. 
Arnold, Content, 94. 
Arnold, Capt. Josiah, 3, 6, 8, 

10, 72, 84. 
Arnold, Sarah, 73. 
Arnold, Sarah (Mumford), 73. 

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Astley, Dr., 12. 
Auchmuty, Arthur Gates, 

156. 
Auchmuty, Robert, 156. 
Auchmuty, Robert Nichols, 

156. 
Auchmuty, Sir Samuel, 156. 
Auchmuty, Rev. Samuel, xi, 

51, 58, 156, 157. 
Auchmuty, Mrs. Samuel, 

157- 

Auchmuty Family, 123, 156. 

Avery, Mr., 12. 

Avery, Dr., 47, 62, 152. 

Avery, Rev. Ephraim, 152. 

Ayrault, Daniel, xi, 19, 50, 
104, III, 120. 

Ayrault, Daniel, Jr., 15, 104, 
no. III. 

Ayrault, Mrs. Daniel, Jr., 1 1. 

Ayrault, Mary (d. of Dan- 
iel, Sr.), III. 

Ayrault, Dr. Pierre, 104. 

Ayrault, Stephen, 15, iii. 

Ayrault Family, 172. 

BABCOCK, Rowse, 130. 
Bailey, Benjamin, 127. 
Baker, Mrs., 2. 
Baker, Benjamin, 58. 
Barclay, Rev. Dr., 156. 
Beach, Rev. John, 28, 132. 
Bearcroft, Rev. Philip, 32, 

114, 136. 
Bell, Major John, 119. 

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Belly fattan, 164. 

Bennett, Ann, 127. 

Bennett, Thomas, 26, 127. 

Bentley, Tabitha, 158. 

Bentley, William, 136. 

Bentley, Mrs. William, 32, 
35, 51, 58, 65, 136. 

Berkeley, Rt. Rev. George, 
xxix,xxx, xxxiii,xxxiv, 72, 
88,96, 105, 119. 

Bernon, Gabriel, xxiv, 83, 94, 
III. 

Bernon, Jean (or Jane) (Mrs. 
William Coddington), 94, 
III. 

Berriman, Rev. John, 58, 
163, 164. [164. 

Berriman, Rev. William, 163, 

Bill, Capt. Joshua, 15, 19, 62, 
63, 112, 155. 

Bill, Sarah, 50, 53, 59, 112, 
155, 164. 

Bissell, Mary, 36, 134, 144. 

Bissell, Samuel, 31, 134. 

Bissell, Thomas (s. of Sam- 
uel), 134, 144- 

Bissell Family, 134. 

Blair, Rev. James, 71. 

Blud, 45. 

Bolico (slave), 26, 48, 58, 128. 

Boone, James, 23, 123. 

Boone, Samuel, 123. 

Boone, Samuel, Jr., 123. 

Borden, Mr., 62. 

Bosworth, Nathaniel (b. 
1651), 167. 

Bosworth, Nathaniel (circa 
1724), 167. 

Bosworth, Nathaniel ("Lit- 
tle Nath."), 62, 167. 

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Bours, Mrs. Abigail, 108, 152. 

Bours, Ann (Mrs. Stephen 
Ayrault), iii. [151. 

Bours,Peter, 26, 28, 11 1, 127, 

Bours, Rev. Peter (s. of Pe- 
ter), 46,48,108,127,151, 

152, 153- 

Bray, Rev. Thomas, 71. 

Brenton, Abigail (Mrs. Wil- 
kinson), III. 

Bridget (slave), 56. 

Brown, Elizabeth (Mrs. John 
Gidley), 142, 

Brown, Mrs. Elizabeth, 143. 

Brown, Franklin (s. of Rob- 
ert), 143. [143. 

Brown, Gov. George, 130, 

Brown, Hannah (Mrs. Rowse 
Babcock), 130. 

Brown, Hannah (Mrs. Wm. 
Robinson), lOO. 

Brown, Hope, 117. 

Brown, Jane (Mrs. Thomas 
Vernon), 133, 142. 

Brown, Jeremiah (s. of Sam- 
uel), 157. 

Brown, John (of Narragan- 
sett), 30. [143. 

Brown, John (s. of Robert), 

Brown, Capt. John (of New- 
port), 28, 42, 133, 142, 155. 

Brown, Lucy (Mrs. Joseph 
Lippitt), 156. 

Brown, Molly, 29, 35, 39, 

42, 53, 130, 133- 

Brown, Peleg (of Newport), 
50, 51, 14^2, 155. 

Brown, Penelope (d. of Sam- 
uel), 166. 

Brown, Robert, 39, 130, 143. 

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Brown, Ruth (Mrs. Wickes), 
42, 65, 130, 170. 

Brown, Samuel, 32, 38, 46, 
49> 136, i57> 163, 166. 

Brown, Mrs. Sarah (Free- 
body) (w. of Peleg), 142. 

Brown, Mrs. Sarah (w. of 
Robert), 143. 

Brown, Thomas, 143. 

Brown, Capt. Thomas (of 
Rehoboth), 156. 

Brown, William, 28, 29, 52, 

130, I33» 143- 

Brown, William (s. of Rob- 
ert), 143. 

Brown, Zephaniah, 57, 163. 

Browne, Major, 24. 

Browne, Rev. Arthur, xi, 59, 
60, 164, 165. 

Browne, Rev. Marmaduke, 
108, 165. 

Bryant, Ruth, 140. 

Bull, Capt. Henry (of New- 
port), 154, 159. 

Bull, Mrs. Henry, 53, 159. 

Bull, Henry (of Newport ; d. 
1841), 159. 

Bull, Isaac, 154. 

Bull, John, 48, 154. 

Bull, Rebecca, 154. 

Burr, Aaron, 149. 

Burr, Theodosia (Mrs. AU- 
ston), 149. 

Burroughs, Mr., 57. 

C 

C^SAR (slave), 26, 65. 
Calais (slave), 56, 59. 
Callender, James Thompson, 

170. 

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Campbell, Capt., 48, 49, 154. 
Caner, Rev, Henry, 28, 130, 

131- 

Caner, Rev. Richard, 131. 

Canterbury, Archbishop of, 
xxii, 6, 32, 92. 

Carhort, Sebastian, 29, no. 

Carpenter, Esther B., 82. 

Carpenter, Francis, 82. 

Carpenter, Rev. James H., 
82. 

Carpenter, Willett, 82. 

Carr, Francis, 124. 

Carr, Sarah (Mrs. George 
Pigot), 124. 

Carter, Mr., 50. 

Carter, Thomas, xxxvi. 

Cary, Col. Henry, xxxiii, 
164. 

Case, Amie, 102. 

Case, John, 12,29, lo?) I33- 

Casey, Gideon, 47, 49, 153. 

Casey, Mrs. Jane (w. of Gid- 
eon), 153. 

Casey, Samuel, Sr., 150. 

Casey, Samuel, Jr., 44, 150, 

151, 153- 

Casey, Thomas (of Newport ; 
b. about 1636), 151. 

Casey, Thomas, 151. 

Casey, Gen. Thomas Lin- 
coln, 151. 

Casey Family, 151. 

Caswell, Rev. Alexis, vii, ix. 

Cazneau, Mr., 18. 

Chadsey Family, 172. 

Champlin, Col. Christopher, 

xi, 37; 105, 141, 162. 
Champlin, Christopher, Jr., 
141. 

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Champlin, Christopher 

Grant, 141. 
Champlin, Mrs. Hannah (w. 

of Col. Christopher), 53. 
Champlin, Ruhamah, 162. 
Champlin Family, 140, 141. 
Channing, Dr. Edward, 81. 
Chappell, Esther, 154. 
Chappell, Mrs. Mary, 47, 5 1, 

54, 154- 
Chase, Capt. John, 97. 
Chase, Dr. John, 97. 
Chase, John B., 97. 
Chase, Samuel, 7, 97. 
Checkley, Rev. John, x, i, 17, 

28,35,70,71,87,114,146. 
Checkley, John, Jr., 107. 
Clark, Mr., 34. 
Clark, John, 40, 42, 144. 
Clark, John, Jr., 144. 
Clark, Latham, 8. 
Clark, Manny, 8, 98. 
Clark, William, 8. 
Clay, Jonas, 58, 59. 
Cleaveland, 45, 151. 
Clevesly, Mr., 60. 
Coddington, Kate, 63. 
Coddington, Nathaniel, 19, 

20, 117, 118, 119. [117. 
Coddington, Hon. Nathaniel , 
Coddington, Col. William, 

7, 62, 93,94, III, 118. 
Coddington, Gov. William, 

93- 

Coddington, Mrs. Col. Wil- 
liam, 14, 1 1 1. 

Coggeshall, Almy, 126. 

Cole, Abigail, 7, 95. 

Cole, Mrs. Ann (ist w. of 
Capt. John), 18, 144. 

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Cole, Betty, 25, 30,36, 125. 

Cole, Capt. Edward, 31, 37, 
50, 60, 87, 95, 135, 149. 

Cole, Ehsha, 95,99, 133, 135, 
144. 

Cole, Mrs. Elizabeth (Dex- 
ter) (w. of Elisha), ix, 7, 
8, 9,11,18,19,27,28,30, 

31, 37, 38, 39,40,95,96, 
97, 99, 134, 135. 

Cole, Jane (Mrs. Samuel Al- 

bro Jr.), 170. _ 
Cole, John (original), 144. 
Cole, Capt. John, 40, 134, 

144. 
Cole,("Esq^'=")John,xi,8,28, 

32, 34, 35, 37, 38, 95, 99, 
102, 133, 135, 136, 144. 

Cole, Mrs. Mary (w. of John), 

115, 123. 
Cole, Mrs. Mary (Bissell) 

(2nd w. of Capt. John), 1 44. 
Cole, Susannah, 125. 
Cole, Thomas (s. of Capt. 

John), 144. 
Cole, William, 144. 
Cole Family, 95, 109. 
Commock, Thomas, 20, lOi, 

120. 
Compton, Bishop, 92. 
Congdon, John, 43. 
Congdon, Mary (d. of John), 

43, 148. 
Congdon, Susannah, 148. 
Cook, Mrs., 20. 
Cooper, Abigail, 124. 
Cooper, Matthew, 124. 
Cooper, Samuel, 24, 124. 
Copley, John Singleton, 90. 
Cotton, Rev. Joiin, 109. 

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Cranston, James, iii. 
Cranston, Col. John, 119. 
Cranston, Mary, 119. 
Cromwell, Oliver, 45. 
Cujo (slave), 4, 85. 
Cullum, Gen., 165. 
Curtis, Samuel, I02. 

T> 

DAVENPORT, Rev. Adding- 
ton, 17, 115. [106. 

Davenport (A " New Light"), 

Davis, Mrs. Esther (Chap- 
pell), 154. 

Davis, William, 154. 

Davis, Mr. ("ye Fuller"), 66, 
172. 

Dawley, Mr., 13. 

Dennis, Abraham, 42, 147. 

Dennis, Capt. John, 20, 120, 
147. 

Dennison, Daniel, 78. 

Dick, Hannah (Mrs. Hannah 
Dickson ?), 65. 

Dickinson, Ann, 123, 157. 

Dickinson, Charles, 123. 

Dickinson, Christopher, 23, 
123. 

Dickinson, Capt. John, 123. 

Dickson, Anthony, 3, 8, 10, 
18, 98, 99, 159, 164. 

Dickson, Anthony, 2nd, 164. 

Dickson, Mrs. Hannah, 

99, 159- 

Dickson, James (s. of Antho- 
ny), 59, 99, 160, 164. 

Dickson, Robert (s. of An- 
thony), 23, 160. 

Dickson, Thomas (s. of An- 
thony), 54, 159, 160. 

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Dickson, William (s. of An- 
thony), 160. 

Douglas, Mr., 26, 41, 52, 
127. 

Dublin, Archbishop of, 88. 

Dunbar, Mr,, 2. 

Dunbar, Governor (of New 
Hampshire), 165. 

Dunwell, George, 17, 115. 

Dyer, Charles, 143. 

Dyer, Edward, 143. 

Dyer, Hannah (d. of Charles), 

39, 143- 
Dyer, Mrs. Penelope (w. of 

Charles), 33, 39, 143. 

Dyer, William, 92. 



EASTON, James, 59,65, 143. 
Easton, Mary, 143. 
Easton, Mercy, 143. 
Easton, Sarah, 143. 
Easton, Mrs. Waite (w. of 

James), 39, 143. 
Edwards, Jonathan, 106. 
Eldred, Hannah, 100, 102. 
Eldred, Capt. John, lOO. 
Eldred, John, 100. 
Eldred, Thomas, 9, lOO. 
Eldred Family, 100. 
Ellery, Martha Redwood, 

141. [112. 

Ellery, Capt. (William?), 15, 
Ellery, William, 112. 
Elliot, Mrs. Robert, 25, 126. 
Ellis, Abigail, xviii, 121. 
Ellis, Dr. Edward, xviii, 12 1. 
Emblo (slave), 3, 32, 37, 38, 

42, 57, 58, 59, 60, 83, 85. 
Essex, Mrs., 31,32, 35, 134. 

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gntiejc of i&ersons 



Everett, Rev. Daniel, 56, 1 6 1 . 
Exeter, Bishop of, 71. 

F 

FAYERWEATHER,ReV.Sam- 
uel, 79, 90, 99, 108, 126, 

i30> i33> 152, i54> 162- 
Fowler, Christopher, xxvii, 

52, 157- 
Fovi^ler, George, 29, 133. 
Fovi^ler, Isaac, 51, 53, 58, 60, 

64,65, 157. 
Francis, Abraham, 2, 7, 16, 

i7> 24, 35, 37>4i,43>74- 
Francis, Mrs. Abraham (Lip- 

pitt), 43. 55, 66, 74. 
Franklin, Mr., 39. 
Freebody, Elizabeth (Mrs. 

Philip Wilkinson), no. 
Freebody, John, no, 142, 

156. 
Freebody, Samuel, 50, 156. 
Freebody, Sarah, 38, 142, 

155- 
Freebody, Mrs. Sarah, 142. 
Fry Family, 79, 172. 

Q 

GALLUP,Capt.Samuel,i68. 
Gallup, William (s. of 
Samuel), 168. 

Gallup, William ("Billy"), 
62, 168. 

Garden, Commissary, I, 5, 
28, 71, 91, 162. 

Garden, Dr. Alexander, 91. 

Garden, Rev. Alexander, 91. 

Gardiner, Abigail (Mrs. Wil- 
liam Robinson), 76. 

Gardiner, Abigail (Mrs. Lo- 

[ ■ 



dow^ick Updike), 26, 29, 32, 
33^62,63,73,88, 127, 136. 

Gardiner, Alice, 30, 134. 

Gardiner, Amos (s. of John), 
50, 52, 53. 56,59*60,67, 

75, 155- 
Gardiner, Mrs. Amos, 112. 
Gardiner, Amos (circa 1826), 

155. 

Gardiner, Anstis, 77. 

Gardiner, Benjamin (s. of 
John), 170. 

Gardiner, Betty (Mrs. Nich- 
olas Lechmere), xxvii, 
xxxii, 18, 21, 22, 115, 116, 
122. 

Gardiner, Desire, 42, 146. 

Gardiner, Dorcas, 39, 143. 

Gardiner, Ephraim, 13, 40, 
108, 109, 135. 

Gardiner, (" Esq^=-") Ephraim, 

3i,39»io9»i34, i35>i43, 

147. [148. 

Gardiner, Justice Ezekiel, 43, 
Gardiner, Ezekiel, Jr., 148. 
Gardiner, Frederick (s. of 

Thomas), 159. 
Gardiner, George (original, d. 

1677), 108, 152. 
Gardiner, Hannah (Mrs. Mac- 

Sparran), xxv, 77,86, 126. 
Gardiner, Henry (b. 1645), 

"9, 135. 

Gardiner, Mrs. Henry (for- 
merly Mrs. John Reming- 
ton), 120. 

Gardiner, Henry (brother of 
Nathan), 53. 

Gardiner, Henry (s. of Eph- 
raim), 40. 

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i 



3Jntje)c of persons 



Gardiner, ("Block Island") 
Henry, 52, 158. 

Gardiner, Mrs. Henry, 33. 

Gardiner, Capt. James, 60. 

Gardiner, John (s. of Wil- 
liam), 2, 5, 10, II, 14,25, 
26, 29, 30, 33, 36, 37, 39, 
40, 48, 50, 52, 53, 54, 57, 
74, 75, 77> 79, 88, 102, 105, 
no, 126, 127, 136, 155, 
158, 159, 164, 173. 

Gardiner, Mrs. John (Taylor), 
10, II, 17, 25,30,32,36, 
63, 105, 126, 136. 

Gardiner, John (s. of John), 
52, 147, 158. 

Gardiner,John ("on yeHill "), 

67, 173- 
Gardiner, Mrs. John ("on ye 

Hill"), 49, 155. 
Gardiner, Lydia (Mrs. Josiah 

Arnold), 84. 
Gardiner, Molly (d. of John), 

52, 158. 
Gardiner, Nathan (brother of 

Henry), 53. 
Gardiner, Nicholas, 148. 
Gardiner, Nicholas, Jr., 148. 
Gardiner, Penelope, 39, 143. 
Gardiner, Mrs. Penelope (El- 

dred), 143, 147. 
Gardiner, Capt. Samuel, 43, 

147. 
Gardiner, Sarah (w. of John 

Gardiner, Jr.), 147, 158. 
Gardiner, Dr. Silvester, xi, 

XXV, 5, 14, 27, 29,34,51, 

63, 64, 74, 89, 99, 103. 
Gardiner, Silvester (s. of Eph- 

raim), 40. 

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Gardiner, Thomas (s. of Wil- 
liam), 10, 25, 102, 126. 

Gardiner, Thomas (s. of 
John), 65, 126, 159. 

Gardiner, Mrs. Thomas, 53, 
159. 

Gardiner, William (d. 171 1), 
146. 

Gardiner, William (d. 1732), 

74, 76, 77, 79, 89, no. 
Gardiner, Mrs. William(Mrs. 

Capt. Almy), 79. 
Gardiner, William (s. of Wil- 
liam), 14, 38, 82, 84, no, 

115, 122, 146. 
Gardiner, Mrs. William, 85. 
Gardiner,William(s.of John), 

no. 
Gardiner, ("Great") William, 

3, 42, 83, 146. 
Gardiner, William ("on the 

Hill"), 18, 116, 146, 155. 
Gardiner, (" Long") William, 

3, 83, 120, 146. 
Gardiner, Mrs. ("Long") 

William, 20, 120. 
Gardiner Family, xi, xxv, 

xxxiii, xxxiv, 109. 
George, Sarah, 139. 
Gibbins, John, 13. 
Gibbs, Elizabeth (Mrs. Wil- 
liam Gardiner), 85, no, 

122. 
Gibbs, William (of Newport), 

85, no. 
Gibbs, Rev. William (s. of 

William), 4, 5, 6, 7, 28, 

29, 84, 85, 88, 89, 92, 95, 

130. 
Gidley, John, 119. 

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3JnDe]c of j^txsons 



Gidley, John, Jr., 1 9, 20, 1 1 8, 

119, 142. 
Gidley, Mrs. John, Jr., 38, 

142. 
Goddard, Ebenezer, 41. 
Goddard, Ebenezer, 2nd, 41. 
Goddard, Elizabeth, 147. 
Goddard, Dr. Giles, 85. 
Goddard, Mrs. Giles, 86. 
Goddard, Prof. William G., 

85. 
Godfrey, Capt. Caleb, 140. 
Godfrey, Mrs. Elizabeth 

(Carr), 36, 73, 139, 140. 
Godfrey, John, 73, 140. 
Goodbody,Mrs. Anna (Rose), 

143- 
Goodbody, John, 18, 26, 27, 

28, 30, 40, 47, 48, 59, 63, 

143- 

Gorton, Samuel, 170. 

Goulding, George, 15, 112. 
Goulding, Mrs. George, 15, 

III. 
Grant, Jane, 119. 
Grant, Mary, 119. 
Grant, Sueton, 19, 20, 118, 

119. 
Graves, Rev. John, 150. 
Graves, Rev. Matthew, xi, 

44, 51, 60, 67, 150. 
Greene, Daniel, 66, 171, 

172. 
Greene, Job, 172. 
Greene, Jonathan, 17, 115. 
Greene, Mrs. Jonathan, 17, 

115. 
Greene, Richard, 144. 
Greene, Weltham(Welthan), 

144. 

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Griswold, Rt. Rev. Alexander 

v., 130. 
Guy, Rev. William, 162. 

H 

HALLAM, Rev. Robert A., 
122. 
Hamilton, Robert, 59, 164. 
Hammond, Joseph (b. 1690), 

104. 
Hammond, Mrs. ("Young") 

Joseph, II, 13, 104. 
Hannibal (slave), ix, 44, 45, 

49> 52, 53, 54, 55, 63, 150. 
Harrison, Capt. Peter, 62, 

109, 168. 
Harry (slave), xii, 3, 8, 9, 11, 

12, 13, 24, 25,26,27,29, 

30, 32, 33, 37, 38, 39, 40, 

41,42,43,44,45,48,49, 

52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 5^, 

59, 60, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 

81. 
Hatch, Ezekiel, 39, 126. 
Hatch, Mrs. Ezekiel, 25, 126. 
Havens, Robert, 124. 
Havens, Ruth, 124. 
Haxson, Martha, 149. 
Hazard, Abigail (Mrs. Peter 

Bours, Jr.), 108. 
Hazard, Mrs. Abigail (w. of 

Caleb), 81, 99. 
Hazard, Alice (Mrs. Carder 

Hazard), 108. 
Hazard, Benjamin (s. of 

George)^, 75. 
Hazard, Caleb, 76, 81, 99, 

103. 
Hazard, Caleb, Jr., 10, 81, 

103. 



3nhtx of j^txsons 



Hazard, Carder, io8. 
Hazard, Edward H., 75, 108. 
Hazard, Elizabeth (Mrs. Dr. 

Robert Hazard), 99. 
Hazard, Enoch (s. of George), 

75. 
Hazard, George (of Boston 

Neck), 29,44,58,75,163. 
Hazard, Mrs. George, 2, 3, 

4, 9> ii> 75, loi. 
Hazard, George, Jr. ("Little 

Neck"?), 58, 75, 163. 
Hazard, Gov. George, 75, 

76, 108. [75. 

Hazard, Mary (d. of George), 
Hazard, Robert (b. 1635) (s. 

of original Thomas), loi. 
Hazard, Dr. Robert, xxvii, 

xxxii, 9, 10, 18, 19, 21, 81, 

99, 103, 116, 121. 
Hazard, Robert (b. 1689) (s. 

of "Old Thomas"), 75. 
Hazard, Gov. Robert (of Pt. 

Judith), 99. 
Hazard, Robert (of North 

Kingstown), 55, 161. 
Hazard, Rowland (of Peace- 
dale), 78. 
Hazard, Rowland G. (of 

Peacedale), 75. 
Hazard, Sarah (d. of Col. Tho- 
mas), 163. 
Hazard, Simeon (s. of 

George), 75. 
Hazard, ("Long") Stephen, 

120. 
Hazard, ("Short") Stephen, 

120. 
Hazard, Susannah (w. of" Old 

Thomas"), 75. 

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Hazard, Susannah (d. of 
George), 75. 

Hazard, Thomas (b. 16 10), 
75, lOI. 

Hazard, (" Old ") Thomas, xi, 
9, 75, 100, 108, 163. 

Hazard, Col. Thomas (of Bos- 
ton Neck), 108, 163. 

Hazard, Mrs. Col. (or Capt.) 
Thomas, 13, 108. 

Hazard, Thomas G. (s. of 
George), 75, 163. 

Hazard, Thomas G., 2nd, 75. 

Hazard, Thomas R. ("Shep- 
herd Tom"), 75. 

Hazard, William ("Billy") 
(s. of Caleb), 2, 18, 81, 100, 
116. 

Hazard Family, xi, xxv, 75, 
79, loi, 108. 

Helme, James, 7, 94, 163. 

Helme, Rowse, 163. 

Helme, Mrs. Rowse, 58,163. 

Helme Family, 84. 

Hill, Hannah, 105, 141. 

Hill, Capt. John, 12, 22, 34, 
36, 37, 105, 106, 107. 

Hill, Mrs. John, 12, 107. 

Hill, Mary (Mrs. John Gardi- 
ner), 75. 

Holden, Anthony, 125, 171. 

Holden, Catherine (Kather- 
ine), 171. 

Holmes, Capt. James, 25,1 26. 

Holmes, Mrs., 25, 126. 

Homans, Col., 6. 

Honyman, Elizabeth, 96. 

Honyman, Mrs. Elizabeth 
(w. of Rev. James), 96. 

Honyman, Francis, 96. 

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'^ntitx of persons 



Honyman, Rev. James, x, 
XXV, xxxviii, 5, 6, 17, 19, 
25>28, 36,77,90,96, 126, 

127, 132, i33> 151, 170- 
Hooper, Experience, 145. 
Hooper, Dr. Henry, 4, 50, 

86. 
Hooper, Dr. Henry, Jr., 86. 
Hopkins, Mary, 157. 
Hopkins, Samuel, 157. 
Hopkins, Mrs. Susannah, 157. 
How^ard, Mr., 24. 
Howard, John, 124. 
How^ard, Joseph, 125. 
How^land, Daniel, 106. 
Hov^^land, Mrs., 41, 144. 
Hull, Joseph, 42, 145, 146. 
Hull, Joseph, Jr., 146. 
Hunter, Andrew^, 50, 155, 

156. 
Hunter, Dr. William, 87,1 56. 
Hutchinson, Mrs. Ann, 95, 

109. 
Hutchinson, Susannah, 95. 
Hutchinson, Hon. Thomas, 

109. 
Hutchinson,Mrs. (Thomas ?), 

14, 109. 
Hutchinson Family, 109. 



JACK (Mrs. Cole's slave), 9. 
Jack (Robert Hazard's 
slave), 55, 161. 
Jane (slave), 134. 
Janis, (r) John, 42, 67. 
Jenkins, Anstis, 73, 1 14, 115, 

^39- 

Jenkins, Mary (Wilkins) (w. 

of Richard Jenkins), 73. 

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Jenkins, Richard, 73. 

Jess, Elizabeth, 149. 

Jess, Joseph, 44, 53, 55, 65, 

149, 159. 
Jess, Mary, 149. 
Johnson, Mr., 57. 
Johnson, Sir William, 135. 



KAY, Nathaniel, 96. 
Kenney, Mrs., 7. 
Kenyon, Mrs. Elizabeth, 33, 

34, 138- 
Kerhaut, Sebastian [see Car- 

hort\ 14, no. 
Kerigan, James, 57. 
King, Magdalene, 122. 
King, Samuel, 23, 122. 
Knight, Madame, 104. 
Knox, Mr., 66, 171. 



LAFAYETTE, Gen., 78. 
Laraby, Willet, 64, 169. 

Laud, Archbishop, 137. 

Lawton, Lydia, 120. 

Lechmere, Nicholas, 116. 

Lechmere, Mrs. Nicholas 
(Betty Gardiner), 1 1 o, 1 1 6. 

Le Moine (Mawney) family, 
98, 172. 

Levally, Peter, 122. 

Limrick, Rev. Paul, xl. 

Lippitt, Anphillis (Mrs. Fran- 
cis), 74. 

Lippitt, Mrs. Ann Phillis 
[Anphillis] (w. of Moses), 
51, 55, 66, 144, 156, 171. 

Lippitt, Christopher, 24, 66, 
125, 171. 



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3t(btx of persons 



Lippitt, Col. Christopher, 98, 

Lippitt, Freelove, 7, 97. 
Lippitt, Jeremiah, 41, 51, 66, 

144, 145. 
Lippitt, John, 97. 
Lippitt, Joseph (s. of Moses), 

51,66, 156. 
Lippitt, Joseph (s. of Joseph), 

66, 156. 

Lippitt, Mrs. Katherine (w. 

of Christopher), 125, 171. 
Lippitt, Mrs. Lucy (w. of 

Joseph), 66. 
Lippitt, Molly, 17. 
Lippitt, Moses, xi, 7, 16, 41, 

43> 74, 97> 144,145, 156, 

.^71- 

Lippitt, Thomas (s. of Jo- 
seph), 156. 

Lippitt Family, xi. 

London, Bishop of, xxii, 6, 

7h 73, ^3, 84, 91, 92- 
Lowell, Mr., 62, 167. 

Lowell, John, 167. 

Lowell, Percival, 167. 

Lucas, Augustus, 133. 

Lucas, Jane, 133. 

Lucas Family, 172. 

Lyons, Rev. James, 28, 29, 

36, 129, 130, 133. 

MAcSpARRANjRev. Archi- 
bald, xvii, 145. 
MacSparran, Archibald, xviii, 

67, 173- 
MacSparran, Mrs. Hannah, 

XXV, xxvi, xxvii, xxxiii, 

xxxiv, xlii, xliii, 72, 73, 

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74, 76, 77, 79,80,81,82, 
83, 84, 85, 86, 88, 89, 90, 
92, 98, 99, loi, 102, 105, 
107, 108, 109, no, 116, 

117, 118, 119, 120, 121, 

122, 126, 127, 128, 130, 
135, 136, 138, 143, 146, 
148, 155, 158, 159, 170, 
173- 

MacSparran, D. D., Rev. 
James, vii, viii, ix, xv, xvi, 
xvii, xviii, xix. xxi, xxii, 
xxiv, xxvi, xxvii, xxix, xxx, 
xxxii, xxxiii, xxxiv, xxxv, 
xxxvi, xxxvii, xli, xliv, xlv, 

28,69, 71,72,73, 74, 76, 
78, 79,80,81,82,83,84, 
85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 

92, 93, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 
100, loi, 102, 103, 104, 
105, 107, 108, 109, no, 
III, 112, 113, 114, 115, 

118, 119, 120, 121, 122, 

123, 124, 126, 128, 132, 

133, 134, 136, 138, 139, 

140, 141, 142, 144, 146, 

147, 148, 149, 150, 151, 

152, 153, 154, 155, 156, 

157, 15^, 160, 161, 162, 

163, 164, 166, 167, 168, 
170, 171, 173, 174. 
MacSparran Family,xviii,xix, 

173- [133- 

Malbone, Col. Godfrey, 118, 

Maroca (slave), xii, 11, 15, 

27, 29, 49, 105. 
Martin, Bathsheba (d. of 

John), 53, 158. 
Martin, James (of Newport), 

5,89. 
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3JntieT of ^txsom 



Martin, John (of Conanicut), 
15,22,48, 50, 54,56,61, 
63,72,103,115,150,158. 

Martin, Mrs. John, 48. 

Martin, Peggy (Mrs. Peirce), 
55, 160. 

Martin, Robert, 55, 160. 

Martin, WiUiam, 10, 103. 

Mason, Mr., 21, 121. 

Mason, Samuel, 27. 

Mather, Rev. Cotton, xx, 151. 

Mawney, Col. Peter, 8, 98. 

Mears, Mary (Mrs. Thomas 
Vernon), 142. 

Miantonomo, 82. 

Micarter, John, 172. 

Miller, Rev. Ebenezer, 28, 

131- 

Mingo (slave), 29. 

Minturn, Hannah, 61, 166. 

Minturn, Jonas, 166. 

Minturn, William, 166. 

Minturn Family, 166. 

Moffatt, Dr. Thomas, 4, 48, 
60, 86, 87, 103, 154. 

Moll (slave), 3, 39, 78. 

Morris, Capt., 40, 143, 144. 

Morris, Rev. Theophilus, i, 
3, 5, 6, 7, 23, 70, 84, 93. 

Mott, Katrine, 115. 

Mott, William, 115. 

Mott, William, Jr., 17, 115. 

Mumford, Abigail (Mrs. Sam- 
uel Seabury), 83. 

Mumford, Ann (Mrs. James 
Dickson), 99, 164. 

Mumford, Mrs. Ann (w. of 
Benjamin), xviii, 9, 1 1, 42, 

65, ^9, 99- 
Mumford, Benjamin, xviii, 

[ I 



5, 8, 9, 10, 13,18,21,24, 
26, 32, 33, 34, 43, 46, 58, 
60, 63, 67, 81, 86,88,89, 

90, 93, 97, 99, 114, 122, 
136, 147, 164. 

Mumford, Betty, 25, 30, 36, 
125. [88. 

Mumford,Caleb (s.of Joseph), 

Mumford, Cecilia (d. of Wil- 
liam), 96. 

Mumford, Mrs. Elizabeth (w. 
of Samuel), 147. 

Mumford, George (s. of Ben- 
jamin), 44. 

Mumford, John (s. of Jo- 
seph), 88. 

Mumford, John (s. of Wil- 
liam), 96. 

Mumford, Joseph, 4, 5, 10, 
13, 19,88,90,93,97,102, 
103,118. 

Mumford, Peter (s. of Benja- 
min), 44, 45, 48, 52, 54, 
55, 56, 57, 58, 60, 64, 65, 
90. 

Mumford, Phebe (Mrs. Dan- 
iel Wier), 16, 81, 1 14. 

Mumford, Capt. Richard, 6, 

37, 44, 93, 97, i49- 

Mumford, Richard (s. of Jo- 
seph), 19, 88, 1 18. 

Mumford, Samuel (s. of Ben- 
jamin), 42, 147. 

Mumford, Stephen (s. of Jo- 
seph), 88. 

Mumford, Susannah (w. of 
William), 96. 

Mumford, Thomas, 4, 5, 6, 
12, 20, 22,83, 86,88,93, 
97- 
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3Jntiej: of j^txsons 



Mumford, Mrs. Thomas, 63. 

Mumford, William (of New- 
port), 7, 8, 20, 38, 95, 96, 
97, 120, 125. 

Mumford, Mrs. William, 28, 

96, 125, 133- 
Mumford, William, Jr., 96. 
Murray, William, 5, 6. 

St 

NATT (slave), 61. 
NeargrasSjEdward, 104. 

Neargrass, Mrs. Edward, 104. 

Neargrass, Susannah, 1 1, 104. 

Newton, Abigail (Mrs. Capt. 
Lodowick Updike), 72. 

Nichols, Gov. Richard, 156. 

Nichols, Richard, 51, 157. 

Nicol (Nichols) Family, 172. 

Niles, Mrs. Mary, 159. 

Niles, Nathaniel, 159. 

Niles, Paul, 53, 159. 

Niles, Rev. Samuel, 159. 

Niles, Sarah, 163. 

Ninigret, King Charles, 138. 

Ninigret, George, 138. 

Ninigret, King George Au- 
gustus, xi, 34, 37, 106, 132, 

138, I39» 140, 141. 
Ninigret, Thomas, 139. 
Northup, Col. Henry (or 

Harry), 53, 61, 103, 137, 

148, 159. 
Northup, Mrs. Henry, 11, 

103- . [137- 

Northup, Joseph (circa 1696), 

Northup, Joseph (s. of Col. 

Harry), 43, 148, 149. 
Northup, Mrs. Mary (w. of 

Joseph), 148. 

[ 187 ] 



Northup, Joseph (Tailor), 33, 
137, 148. 

Northup, Nicholas (s. of Ste- 
phen 2nd), 103. 

Northup, Stephen, 103. 

Northup, Stephen, 2nd, 103. 

Northup, Thomas (s. of Ste- 
phen 2nd), 103. 

o 

OpDyck, Gysbert, 72, 1 1 3. 
{See Updike.) 
Osborn, Capt., 14. 
Oxford, Bishop of, 92. 

T 

PAINE, Capt. John, 6, 1 o, 1 1 , 
92. 
Paine, Mercy (or Marcy), 92. 
Papillion, Obadiah, 167. 
Papillion, Mrs. Peter, xx. 
Parsons, Dr. Usher, 82. 
Peckham, Mrs., 7. 
Peckham, Mrs. Benjamin, 47. 
Peckham, Mary, 126. 
Peckham, Thomas, 19, 26, 

126. 
Peebles, Mr., 33. 
Peirce, Mr., 61, 160. 
Peirce (Mrs. Peggy?), 51. 
Peirce, Jeremiah, xviii, 55, 

160. 
Peirce, Peggy, xviii, 160. 
Pepperell, Sir William, 129. 
Perkins, Mrs. Remembrance, 

86. 
Perry, Alice (Mrs. Silvester 

Robinson), 168. 
Perry, Mrs. James De Wolf, 

167. 



3lttt)ejr of i&ersons 



Phillips, Christopher, xi, 21, 
44, 51, 55) 56, 66, 120, 
121, 123, 134, 147, 148, 
160. 

Phillips, Jr., Christopher, 
56, 162. [162. 

Phillips, Christopher, 3rd, 56, 

Phillips, Elizabeth, 123. 

Phillips, Mary (Mrs. John 
Dickinson), 123. 

Phillips, Mary (Mrs. Christo- 
pher Phillips, Jr.), 162. 

Phillips, Hon. Peter, 147. 

Phillips, Samuel, 121, 123, 
147. 

Phillips, Major Samuel, 162. 

Phillips, Thomas, xi, 43, 56, 
121, 147, 148, 162. 

Phillips Family, 1 21, 147. 

Phillis (slave), 78, 85. 

Pigot, Edward, 124. 

Pigot, Rev. George, x, 24, 73, 
124. 

Pigot, Rebecca, 124. 

Pigot, Richard, 124. 

Pinder Family, 148. 

Pine, Miss, 33. 

Plant, Rev. Matthias, i, 69. 

Pollen, Rev. Thomas,8o, 1 52. 

Pompey (slave), 57. 

Potter, Archbishop, 92. 

Potter, Elisha R., 170. 

Potter, Jo: (Indian), 58. 

Potter, Martha (Mrs. Wil- 
liam Robinson), 77, 

Powell, Adam, 83. 

Powell, Elizabeth, xxxiv. 

Powell, Esther, 94. 

Powell, Mrs. John, 119. 

Prescott, Gen., 162. 

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Prevost, Abbe, 151. 
Punderson, Rev. Ebenezer, 

28, 131, 132. 
Punderson, Mrs. Ebenezer, 

41, 132. 

RANDALL, Mr., 32. 
Read, Edmund (of 
Wickford, England), 1 12. 

Read, Eleanor, 21, 121. 

Read, George, 21, I2I. 

Redwood, Abraham, 141. 

Remington, Mrs. Abigail, 
138.^ 

Remington, John, 119, 138. 

Remington Family, 83, 92. 

Richmond, Abigail, 119. 

Richmond, Edward, 119. 

Robinson, Abigail (d. of Sil- 
vester), 169. 

Robinson, Mrs. Abigail (w. 
of Gov. William), 2, 4, lO, 
11,38,57,64,76,100,103, 
158, 161. 

Robinson, Mrs. Anstis (w. 
of Rowland), 3, 5, 9, lo, 
17, 20, 25, 26, 30,32,33, 
34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 42, 
43, 44, 48, 53,75,77, ^i, 
82. 

Robinson, Christopher (s. of 
William), 10, 56, 64, 103, 
161. 

Robinson, Elizabeth, 130. 

Robinson, Hannah(d. of Row- 
land), 75, 77. 

Robinson, Hannah (w. of 
Gov. George Brown), 130, 

H3- 
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3lntie;c of persons 



Robinson, James (s. of Silves- 
ter), 169. [land), 77. 

Robinson, Mary (d. of Row- 
Robinson, Mary (d. of Silves- 
ter), 169. 

Robinson, Molly (d. of Gov. 
William), 52, 53, 158. 

Robinson, Row^land, xi, 2, 12, 
15, 25,26, 34,35,36>38, 
43, 53> 11^ 78, 79, 82, 83, 
127. 

Robinson, Silvester (s. of Gov. 
William), 63, 168. 

Robinson, Gov. William, xi, 
2,3,5,9,10,14,18,19,27, 
56,64, 76, 77, 81,82,83, 
99, 100, 103, 116, 118, 
128, 129, 130, 158, 161, 
162, 168. 

Robinson, William (s. of Gov. 
William), 9, 100. 

Robinson, William (s. of Row^- 
land), 77. 

Robinson, William (s. of Sil- 
vester), 169. 

Robinson Family, xxv. 

Roe, Rev. Stephen, 4, 88, 1 62. 

Rome, George, 79, 148. 

Rose, Anna, 143. 

Ruth (slave?), 63, 169. 



SALTONSTALL,RoSWell,I22. 
Sampson, xii, 121. 
Sampson, Abigail, xii, 18, 21, 

116, 121. 
Sandford, Mr., 6, 32, 63. 
Sarah (slave ?), 9. 
Scott, Ann (Mrs. William 
Robinson), 77. 

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Scriven, James, xxxix. 

Seabury, Rt. Rev. Samuel, 
xxxiv, XXXV, xlii, 83, 152. 

Seabury, Rev. Samuel, x, 
xxxiv, 3, 7, 83, 84, 93. 

Seabury, Mrs. Samuel (Abi- 
gail Mumford), 83. 

Seabury, Mrs. Samuel (Eliza- 
beth Pow^ell), 83, 84, 94. 

Seeker, Archbishop, 152. 

Shackmaple, Sarah (Mrs. Jo- 
seph Gidley), 119. 

Shaw^, Job, 5, 91. 

Sheffield, Joseph, 160, 161. 

Sheffield, Mrs. Mary, 161. 

Sheffield, Nathaniel, 54, 55, 
56, 160, 161. 

Sheldon, John, 143. 

Sherman, Abiel, 157. 

Sherman, Mrs. Abiel, 51,157. 

Sherman, Eber, 92. 

Sherman, Edward, 24, 25, 
123. 

Sherman, Hannah, 157. 

Sherman, Mrs. Martha, 5, 33, 
92. 

Sherman, William, 25, 123. 

Sherman, Mrs. Abigail (w. 
of William), 30, 123. 

Shirley, Mr., 57. 

Simons, Peter, 77. 

Slafter, Rev. Edmund F., 71, 

153- 
Slocum, Moses, 41, 145. 

Smibert, John, xxx, xxxii, 

xxxiii, xxxix, 77. 

Smith, James (of Boston), 14. 

Smith, Jemmy (slave), 57. 

Smith, Jeremiah, 780 

Smith, John, 33, 58, 78, 137. 

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3InDer of i&ersons 



Smith, Mrs. John, 63. 
Smith, Katherine, 72. 
Smith, Molly, 35. 
Smith, Richard, 72, 113, 134. 
Smyth, John, 72. 
Sprague, Elder David, 161. 
Sprague, Gov. William, 76. 
Stafford, Amos, 74. 
Stafford, Mary, 17. 
Stafford, Major Samuel, 2, 74, 

115. 
Stafford, Thomas, 74. 
Stanton, Col. Joseph, 37, 

141. 
Stanton, Joseph (of Quono- 

contaug), 141. 
Stanton, Thomas (of Stoning- 

ton. Conn.), 141. 
Stepney (slave), xii, 2, 7, 8, 

II, 12, 22, 24, 26, 27, 58, 

78, 85, 123. 
Stepney, 2nd (slave), 57. 
Stewart, Mrs. Abigail {w. of 

Matthevi^), 84, no, 122. 
Stew^art, Elizabeth, 23, 122. 
Stewart, Matthew, 3, 9, 22, 

23, 29, 38, 84, no, 122. 
Stuart, Gilbert, xxxii, 84, 87, 

103. 
Stuart, Gilbert (Painter), 

xxxii, 95, 127, 155, 159. 
Sweet, Capt. Benoni, 26, 44, 

128, 149, 158. 
Sweet, Benoni, 2nd, 150. 
Sweet, Mrs. Elizabeth, 44. 
Sweet, James, 128. 
Sweet, Job, 149, 150. 
Sweet, John, 128. 
Sweet, Thomas (s. of Benoni), 

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TANNER, Deborah, 134. 
Tarbox Family, 172. 
Taylor, Mr,, 19, 20, 118. 
Taylor, Rt. Rev. Jeremy, 1 44. 
Taylor, Mary (Mrs. John 

Gardiner), 75, 105, 126, 

158. 
Tennison, Archbishop, 152. 
Tennant, John, 115. 
Tennant, Phebe, 17, 115, 
Thomas, Benjamin, 15. 
Thomas, Mrs., 18. 
Thompson, Rev. Ebenezer, 

viii, xi, 28, 132. 
Thompson, Mrs. Edward, vii. 
Tourgee Family, 172. 
Tuam, Archbishop of, 88. 
Turner, Jack, 145. 

u 

UPDIKE, Mrs. Sarah (w. of 
Col. Daniel), 97. 
Updike, Mrs. Anstis (w. of 
Col. Daniel), 9, 15, 16, 
21, 112, 114, 115, 117, 

123, 139. 
Updike, Col. Daniel, xi, xxv, 

I, 3» 6, 7, 8, "5 i3> H, 
i5> i7» 21, 23,34,35,37, 
46, 4% 5i> 55,5^,60,61, 
62,63, 64, 72,85,87,95, 
99, 100, 102, 107, no, 
114, 115, 123, 124, 139, 
140, 155, 160, 169. 

Updike, Daniel (s. of Rich- 
ard), 102. 

Updike, Daniel (of East 
Greenwich), 88. [xliii. 

Updike, Daniel Berkeley, 

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3Intie;i: of }^txsons 



Updike, Elizabeth (d. of Rich- 
ard), 102. 
Updike (Op Dyck), Gysbert, 

72, 113- 
Updike, James (s. of Richard), 

102. 
Updike, John (s. of Richard), 

9, 102, 123. 
Updike, Capt. Lodowick, 72, 

85, 102, 123. 
Updike, Lodowick (s. of Col. 

Daniel), 4, 34, 35, 36, 73, 

87,88,115,127. 
Updike,Mrs. Lodowick (Abi- 
gail Gardiner), 75, 136. 
Updike, Mary (d. of Col. 

Daniel), 9, 36, 95, 99, 102, 

115, 123. 
Updike, Mary (d. of Rich- 
ard), 23, 102, 123. 
Updike, Mrs. Mary (w. of 

Col. Daniel), 36, 37, 56, 

61, 140, 160. 
Updike, Patty (Martha), 4, 

85, 86. 
Updike, Richard (s. of Capt. 

Lodowick), 23, 100, 102, 

123. 
Updike, Richard Smith (s. of 

Richard), I02. 
Updike, Sarah (Mrs. Giles 

Goddard), 85, 86. 
Updike, Wilkins, viii, ix, 

xxxiii, xliv, xlv, 84, 86, 

88, 94, 108, 114, 115, 118, 

122, 136, 159, 163. 
Updike Family, xxv, xxxiv, 

72, 75, 90, 120, 124. 
Usher, Governor (of New 

Hampshire), 131. 

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Usher, Rev. John, xi, 28, 46, 
47, 62, 131, 162. 

V 

VASSAL, Harry, 18. 
Vassal, William, 18,27. 
Vernon, Samuel, 142. 
Vernon, Thomas (?), xli, 38, 

I33> 142. 
Vernon, William, 142. 
Vernon Family, xi, 142. 
Viets, Rev. Roger, 130. 

w 

WALKER, Capt. William, 
107, 108. 

Walker, Mrs. William (?), 12, 
107. 

Walker, William (of Bristol), 
107, 108. 

Walmsley,Thomas("Tom"), 
xii, 9, 12, 20, 21, 25, 29, 
31^ 32, 33> 37538,41,42, 
44, 48, 49, 52, 53> 54, 55, 
58, 59, 60, 64, 65, lOI, 
120. 

Walmsley, Mrs. Elizabeth, 

lOI. 

Wanton, George, 133. 

Wanton, Mary (Mrs. Daniel 
Updike), 73, 140. 

Wanton, Molly, 36, 140. 

Wanton, Ruth, 56, 140. 

Wanton, Gov. William, 73, 
115, 140, 170. 

Warren, Commodore Sir Pe- 
ter, xi, xli, 31, 32, 34,37, 
38, 129, 135, 136, 137, 
141, 169. 

Watmough, Edmund, 8, 98. 

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3lntie;r of persons 



Watmough, George, 98. 

Watmough, Rebecca (Mrs. 
Capt. Benjamin Wick- 
ham), 98. 

Watmough Family, 98. 

Watson, Frances, 145. 

Watson, JeofFrey, 19, 26, 47, 

54, "7- 
Watson, John, 117, 152. 

Watson, John, Jr., 117. 

Wesley, Rev. John, 51. 

Wharton, Richard, 134. 

Whipple, Ann (or Anphillis), 

97- 

Whipple, Joseph (of New- 
port), 100. 

Whipple, Joseph (s. of Jo- 
seph), 9, 100. 

Whipple, Joseph (of Provi- 
dence), 97. 

White, Capt. Nicholas (or 
Nichols), 40, 143, 144. 

Whitefield, Rev. George, x, 
25, 125, 126. 

Wiclces, Elizabeth (d. of 
Thomas), 170. 

Wiclces, John (b. 1609), 170. 

Wickes, John (b. 1677), 170. 

Wickes, Thomas (s. of John), 

Wickham, Capt. Benjamin, 
8,98,111. [98. 

Wickham, Mrs. Benjamin, 

Wickham, Capt. Charles, 1 1 1. 

Wickham, Capt. Samuel, 1 5, 
I II, 112. 

Wickham, Capt.Thomas, 15, 
II I, 1 12. 

Wier, Daniel, 3, 9, 16, 30, 

33, 39, ^i- 

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Wier, John, 23, 122. 

Wier, Mrs. Phebe (Mum- 
ford), 30, 65, 81. 

Wilkins, Mr., 114. 

Wilkinson, Capt. Philip, 20, 
2B, 38,49,50,51,59,60, 
61, 62, 63, 67, 104, no, 
III, 164. 

Wilkinson, Mrs. Philip, 14, 

49, 58, 62, 63, 64, no, 

^55- 
Willett, Col. Francis, xi, xxv, 

3, 7, 9, 10, II, 13,75,81, 

82, 105. 
Willett, Mrs. Mary (Taylor), 

25, 53, 82, 126. 
Willett, Thomas, 82. 
Williams, Col., 62. 
Winthrop, Mrs. Elizabeth 

(Read) (w^. of John Win- 
throp, Jr.), 112, 113. 
Winthrop, Gov. John, Jr. 

(of Conn.), 112, 113. 
Winthrop, John (grands, of 

above), 112. 
Wolfe, Gen. James, 135. 
Woodale, Alice, 167. 
Woodbridge, Rev. Benjamin, 

169. 
Woodbridge, Rev. Ephraim, 

129, 169. 
Woodbridge, Rev. John, 169. 
Woodbridge, Rev. John, Jr., 

169. 
Woodbridge, Paul, 28, 64, 

129, 169. 
Woodbridge, Rev. Timothy, 

169. 



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Index of Places 



ALBANY, N. Y., 93. 
AUenton, R. I., 172. 
^ Andover, Mass., 169. 
Angiers (or Angers), France, 
104. [117, 134. 

Annaquatucket River, R. I., 
Apponaug, R. I., 172. 
Aquidneck, R. I., 95. 
Arnold's Bridge, R. I., 171. 
Artois, France, 151. 

s 

BALLYNEss, Ireland, 41, 
145. 

Barbadoes, 72, 97. 

Barber's Heights, R. L, 105, 
172. 

Barrington, R. L, 82. 

Belleville, R. L, 121. 

Berkeley, England, 72. 

Block Island, R. I., 115. 

Bonnet Pt., R. I., 74, 155. 

Borden's Ferry, R. I., 62, 
166. 

Boston, Mass., xvi, xx, xxi, 
xxxiv, 5, 10, 13, 14, 16, 
I7> 29, 32, 35,60,62,69, 
70> 74, 77, 88. 

Boston Neck, R. I., xxviii, 
xxix, 19, 20, 25, 27, 38, 
40, 42, 63, 70, 74, 75, 76, 
77, 78, 79, 82, 88, loi. 

Braintree, Mass., 131. 

Bristol, England, 126. 

Bristol, R. I., xi, xviii, xx, 
xxi, xxii, xxiii, 61, loi. 

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Bristol Ferry, R. I., 62, 166, 
167. [xlii. 

Broadw^ay Chapel, London, 
Brookhaven, N. Y., 129. 
Brunswick, Maine, xxxiv. 

c 

CAMBRIDGE, England, 138. 
Cambridge, Mass., 138, 
165, 168. [128. 

Canonchet, R. I., 76, 116, 

Cape Breton, x, 27, 31, 37, 
38, 129, 135, 149. 

Centreville, R. I., 171, 172. 

Chaldon, England, 124. 

Chantilly, France, 151. 

Charleston,S.C., 71,91, 162. 

Charlestown, R. I., 37, 105. 

Chester, England, 150. 

Clapham, England, 150. 

Cocumscussuc, R. I., 72. 

Coeset, R. I., i, 2, 8, 11, 16, 
17, 21, 23, 24,29,35,38, 
41,43,44,66,69,73, 123. 

Conanicut, R. I., 1,6, 10, 15, 
16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 
24, 27, 36, 40, 42, 54, 56, 
61, 69, 72, 84, 103. 

Coventry, R. I., 122. 

Cross's Mills, R. I., 133, 141. 

Cumberland, R. I., 171. 



D 



ERBY, Conn., 70. 
Dettingen, Germany, x, 
14, 109. 



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3nhtx of i&laces 



Devil's Foot, R. I., 104. 
Drogheda, Ireland, 164. 
Dublin, Ireland, xviii, 70. 
Dungiven, Ireland, xvii, xviii, 
xix, xxxiii, 145, 160. 

e 

EAST Chester, N. Y., 95. 
East Greenwich, R. I., 
24, 73> 88, 98, 104, III, 
125, 172. 
Eton, England, 119. 
Exeter, R. I., 166. 

F 

FAIRFIELD, Conn., 130, 
131. 

Falmouth, Mass., 145. 
Fort Adams, R. L, 165. 
Fort Anne, R. I., 165. 
Fort George, R. I., 165. 
Fort Greene, R. I., 165. 
Fort Liberty, R. I., 165. 
Fort Neck, R. L, 138. 
Freetow^n, Mass., xxiii. 
French Town, R. I., 66, 98, 
104, III, 172. 

Q 

GARDINER, Maine, xxv, 
xxxiii, 89. 
Glasgow, Scotland, xix, 130. 
Goat Island, R. I., 165. 
Great Plain, R. I., 148, 172. 
Groton, Conn., 22, 83, 84, 
86. 

H 

HALIFAX, N. S., 131. 
Hamilton, R. I., 117, 

134- 

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Hammond Hill, R. I., xxx, 

105. 
Hebron, Conn., 150. 
Hempstead, N. Y., 83, 93. 
Hingham, Mass., 167. 

7 

JAMAICA, N. Y., 90. 
Jamestown, R. I., 72, 84. 

King's Chapel, Boston, 
16, 109, 130. 
King's Church (St. John's), 
Providence, x, 71, 88, 97. 
Kingston, R. I., xxxiii, xliv, 

88. 
Kintore, Scotland, xix. 
Kintyre, Mull of, Scotland, 

XIX. 

Kit's kill, R. I., 127. 
Kit's Pond, R. I., 118. 
Kittery, Maine, 165. 

L 

Lebanon, Conn., 150. 
Lewes, Delaware, 70. 
Lippitt, R. I., 171. 
Lisburne, Ireland, 144. 
Little Compton, R. I., xxiii. 
Little Rest, R. I., xxxiv, 93. 
London, xi, xvi, xlii, 27, 44, 

63, 98. 
Londonderry, Ireland, 55, 

173- 
Louisburg,x, 31,32, 93, 129, 

135, 136. 

MacSparran Hill, R. I., 
xxvi, 69, 76, loi. 

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3nhtx of j&laces 



Main River, Germany, x, 1 4, 

109. 
Mashapaug, 145. 
Marblehead, Mass., 108, 124, 

151. 
Mattatoxet River, R. L, 103, 

159. 
Meshanticut Park, R. L, 171. 
Middletow^n, R. I., 170. 
Milford, 6. 

NAMCOOK, R. I. (Boston 
Neck), 117. 
Narragansett, R. I., viii, x, 
xii, XV, xxii, xxiii, xxiv, 
XXV, xxviii, xxix, xxx, 
xxxi, xxxii, xxxiii, xxxiv, 
XXXV, xxxvii, xxxviii,xxxix, 
xl, xli, xlii, xliv, xlv,4i,69, 

70, 72, 73, 74, 75, 78, 79, 

81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 87. 
Narragansett Pier, R. I., 76, 

116. 
Narrovv^ River, R. I., xxviii, 
2, 4, 18, 70, 75, 76, 78, 

82, 86, loi. 
Natick, R. I., 125, 171. 
New Amsterdam, N. Y., 113. 
Newbury, Mass., i, 69. 
Newbury port, Mass., 125. 
New London, Conn., x, xi, 

xxxiv, 3, 6, 22, 23, 28, 38, 
60, 70, 83, 84, 85. 
New Londonderry, Penn.,67, 

173- 
Newport, R. L, x. xi, xvi, 

XXV, xxix, xxxvi, xli, i, 3, 

4, 5, 7, 10,14,17,19,25, 
28,31, 36,37,41,42,43, 

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46, 48, 49, 50, 61, 62, 64, 

70, 72, 73, 77y 79, 80, 83, 

84, 85, 86, 87, 88. 
Newtown, Conn., 132. 
New York, xi, xvi, 51, 69, 

82. 
North Ferry, R. L, 127, 172, 

173- 
North Groton, Conn., 83. 
North Kingstown, R. I., 

xxiii,4, 25, 55, 72, 74, 77, 

82, 85, 87, 100. 
North Nibley, England, 72. 
Norwich, Conn., 150. 
Nutfield, Ireland, 55, 160. 



PAWTUxETRiver,R.L,i25, 
171. 

Peacedale, R. L, 78, 102. 

Pettaquamscutt Pond, 100, 
no, 123, 129, 142. 

Pettaquamscutt River (Nar- 
row River), xxvi, xliii, 87. 

Philadelphia, 98. 

Piscataqua, N. H. (Ports- 
mouth), xi, 14, 59, 109, 
165. 

Plymouth, Mass., xx, 74. 

Point Judith, R. L, xxviii, 
II, 19, 56,99. 

Pontiac, R. L, 125, 171. 

Poppasquash Neck, R. L, 

lOI. 

Portsmouth, N. H., 109, 165. 
Portsmouth, R. L, 75, 120, 

147. 
Potowomut River, R. L, 134. 
Princeton, N. J., 171. 
Providence, R. L, viii, x, xxiv, 



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xxxiv, 25, 35, 38, 69, 71, 
74, 82, 85, 88, 97. 
Providence Neck, 165. 



Que 



a 

UEBEC, 135. 

Quonocontaug, R. L, 
141. 

READING, Conn., 132. 
Rehoboth, Mass., 156. 
Rhode Island Fort, x, 60, 

165. 
Ridge Hill, R. I., 128. 
Rochelle, PVance, 104. 
Rochester (Kingstown), R. I., 

US- 
Rye, N. Y., 131, 152. 

S 

SAGO, R. I., 61, 166. 
Salem, Mass., 124, 128, 
151. [162. 

St. George's, S. C, 88, 131, 

St. James's Church, New 
London, Conn., xi, 22, 70, 
83, 122, 150. 

St. John's Church (King's), 
Providence, R. I., x, 71, 
88, 97. 

St. John's Island, 135. 

St. Michael's Church, Bris- 
tol, R. I.,xi, xxii, 131, 167, 
168. 

St. Paul's Church, Narragan- 
sett, XV, xxiii, xxv, xxix, 
xxxiv, xliv, I, 2, 12, 13, 
15, 16, 17, 18, 21, 22,23, 
24, 27, 29, 30, 32, 34, 36, 



37> 38, 40, 42, 43> 44> 69, 

74, 85, 88. 

St. Thomas', S. C, 91, 
Scheneftady, N. Y., 93. 
Scituate, Mass., viii, xi, 115, 

132. 
Scituate, R. I., 124. 
Shanticut, R. I., 66, 125, 171. 
Shawomet, R. I., 74, 170. 
Silverspring, R. I., 128. 
Simsbury, Conn., 28, 85,1 30. 
South Ferry, R. I., 11, 13, 47, 

48, 50, 59, 60,61,63, 70, 

75, 82. 

South Kingstown, R. I., xxvi, 

xliv, 27, 77, 82, 85, 88. 
Stonington, Conn., 141. 
Strabane, Ireland, 164. 
Stratford, Conn., 124. 
Sugar Loaf Hill, R. I., 76, 

149- 
Swansea, Mass., xxiii, 82. 

T 

TAUNTON, Mass., 129. 
Tower Hill, R. I.,xxviii, 
xxxvi, xxxvii, 9, 12, 13, 

28, 37,46, 57,64,76,93- 

Trenton, N. J., 171. 

Trinity Church, Newport, 
R. I., xi, xxix, 73, 77, 80, 
83, 88. [xi. 

Trinity Church, New York, 

U 

NIVERSITY of Glasgow, 



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University of Oxford, xxxv. 
Updike's New Town, xxviii, 
15, 112, 113. 



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w 

WAKEFIELD, R. I., 75, 76, 
102, 118. 

Walmsley Hill, R. L, loi. 

Warren, R, L, 135. 

Warwick, R. I., 5, 7, 16, 17, 
21, 23, 24, 29,35,41,43, 
51,53,55,65,69,73,74, 

97- 
Warwick Neck, R. I., 73. 

Warwickshire, England, 74. 

Washington, D. C, 98. 



Waterbury, Conn., 70. 
Wesel, Germany, 72. 
Westerly, R. I., 20, 29, 69, 

105. 
West Haven, Conn., 70. 
Wickford, England, II2. 
Wickford, R. I., xxiii, xlv, 

72, 74, 112, 113. 

r 

^W'awgoo, R. I., 166. 



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